Demo Day

Remaining items on street

 

Organizatin that did demo

Yesterday I received a phone call from this Mormon organization, they were at Samantha's house, and wanted to know what help we needed. After a few calls back and forth, they came back today to completely gut Samantha's house, When I say gut, its a shell. Walls, floors, molding, anything wet, moldy or rotted. In this case even the kitchen sink. Anything tangible left from Hurricane, was either boxed to bring to my house or scrapped. Very little was saved. While this all might seem great that now the house is bared to the bones, it does not mean very much. We do not have the means, financially to put it back together. But at least further damage will be avoided.

This coming week, we will be packing up Becky's house, as the entire first floor flooring has to be pulled up. Did I mentioned finding a place for all of Becky's stufff

The sub floor, the floor, any walls that got wet, maybe the kitchen cabinets, the bathroom tile and tub. Who knows what will be found upon further inspection. All heating ducts need replacement, the central air unit was under water and any insulation under the house needs to be removed. Sadly under the house was just completely weatherizied by professionals about 3 years ago. As if not to add insult to injury, on Friday Becky had a small house fire in her dryer. We are not sure now if perhaps electric got wet, or the dryer just felt like quiting. Hopefully it is the latter. The one saving grace from Sams' house is about 2 months ago I replaced her dryer and it did not get wet. It is smaller but will work for now. Of course it is outside, so hopefully weather elements will not ruin it.


Whats left of kitchen, mold already making a new home
 

What does this mean, Becky, Sam, three grandsons, a dog and a cat will have no place to go, I am hoping Scott and I can find a small short term rental for about a month and they all can stay here. Sounds simple except rentals are not available due to the amount of homeless survivors of the storm that also lost their homes, I thought a extended stay hotel would work but they are all booked with again survivors of the storm and all the utility workers from out of state. Each day we face a new challenge, each day we find new strength

Trying to find the hope, faith and love, please continue your support

  

Team doing demo, God Bless them all

Mold setting in

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What was Sam's bedroom, floor was still wet after 14 days

                                                    Sam in her gutted out house, so sad