Okay. What DOES the Katrina disaster look like in APRIL?
Go with me into your imagination, will you?
Are you ready for a time of sorrow?
Okay then.
Take all your kid’s toys, sports equipment and books. Tear them up and throw them around a room!
Soak everything with mud and water!
Now, take all the dishes out of your cupboards and cabinets.
Break them violently and scatter them on top of the toys.
Then, viciously tear apart all your furniture and fling it all around the same room.
Add a few trees, bushes and flowers into the mix.
Perhaps a stop or street sign. And, okay, a lamp post!
Continue this process with your food, jewelry, your sound equipment, your tv, your tools, your hobbies your books and family collectables. All of them. Crush them. Mix them all together. And then when your done doing that. . . take the room and blow that apart, too!
Add some stuff that flew in from the next neighborhood!
See that heap? That is what we see all these months after Katrina struck!
As we drove through the vicinity yesterday,
My heart pounded!
My stomach ached!
My eyes bulged.
I got tired.
Very tired.
And then when we went to church today, we heard it was so- o-o improved over the conditions in the beginning.
The roads are cleared.
The cars are out of the trees.
Houses are being restored with the help of friends, churches and volunteers from all parts of the country!
We just arrived.
A lady told Al that they had been here a week and she had never worked so hard in all her life digging trash, excrement, furnishings, water, snakes, sheet rock, and ‘stuff’ out of the house to the street.
She said when they finished, the pile of refuse was higher than the house itself.
When everything is out and completely gutted, they will go in and treat all the house srtucture left standing with something that will keep mold from returning. Then insulate and start rebuilding the house.
Doesn’t take much to write about it, but when you hear the story, and see the fatigue, disaster takes on new meaning!
Family, don’t forget to pray for these lovely people.
And don't forget to say, "thank you."
Tomorrow, we get to go to work. PtL!
Go with me into your imagination, will you?
Are you ready for a time of sorrow?
Okay then.
Take all your kid’s toys, sports equipment and books. Tear them up and throw them around a room!
Soak everything with mud and water!
Now, take all the dishes out of your cupboards and cabinets.
Break them violently and scatter them on top of the toys.
Then, viciously tear apart all your furniture and fling it all around the same room.
Add a few trees, bushes and flowers into the mix.
Perhaps a stop or street sign. And, okay, a lamp post!
Continue this process with your food, jewelry, your sound equipment, your tv, your tools, your hobbies your books and family collectables. All of them. Crush them. Mix them all together. And then when your done doing that. . . take the room and blow that apart, too!
Add some stuff that flew in from the next neighborhood!
See that heap? That is what we see all these months after Katrina struck!
As we drove through the vicinity yesterday,
My heart pounded!
My stomach ached!
My eyes bulged.
I got tired.
Very tired.
And then when we went to church today, we heard it was so- o-o improved over the conditions in the beginning.
The roads are cleared.
The cars are out of the trees.
Houses are being restored with the help of friends, churches and volunteers from all parts of the country!
We just arrived.
A lady told Al that they had been here a week and she had never worked so hard in all her life digging trash, excrement, furnishings, water, snakes, sheet rock, and ‘stuff’ out of the house to the street.
She said when they finished, the pile of refuse was higher than the house itself.
When everything is out and completely gutted, they will go in and treat all the house srtucture left standing with something that will keep mold from returning. Then insulate and start rebuilding the house.
Doesn’t take much to write about it, but when you hear the story, and see the fatigue, disaster takes on new meaning!
Family, don’t forget to pray for these lovely people.
And don't forget to say, "thank you."
Tomorrow, we get to go to work. PtL!
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