Dan Gill
09-10-2005, 2:48 PM
Here's a pic of what I was doing this week. That's not me in the pic, but it's what I was doing before I cleaned off my hands enough to pick up the camera.
We took 22 people and a whole bunch of food, water, bedding, and toiletries to a church in Lafayette where they have been sheltering refugees and feeding about 300 - 350 people a day. On Tuesday and Wednesday a bunch of us went to Slidell, which is just on the north side of Lake Ponchartrain. The guy who took us said his house is 12 feet above the canal and the waterline in his place was over 4 feet high. We spent the time hauling stuff out of his house, and those of several of his neighbors, and mucking out the nasty, smelly mud. We killed two snakes inside one house (don't ask me what kind - they were very muddy and hard to identify, and many of us had shovels in hand). It was filthy, horrible, and totally satisfying work.
We also unloaded and loaded lots of food and water, cooked for refugees, and gave food out to people who had some kind of housing or were housing refugees. I'm dead tired and ready to go back.
If you slept under your own roof in a dry house last night, you should thank God for your blessings. There are millions who didn't.
Dan Gill
We took 22 people and a whole bunch of food, water, bedding, and toiletries to a church in Lafayette where they have been sheltering refugees and feeding about 300 - 350 people a day. On Tuesday and Wednesday a bunch of us went to Slidell, which is just on the north side of Lake Ponchartrain. The guy who took us said his house is 12 feet above the canal and the waterline in his place was over 4 feet high. We spent the time hauling stuff out of his house, and those of several of his neighbors, and mucking out the nasty, smelly mud. We killed two snakes inside one house (don't ask me what kind - they were very muddy and hard to identify, and many of us had shovels in hand). It was filthy, horrible, and totally satisfying work.
We also unloaded and loaded lots of food and water, cooked for refugees, and gave food out to people who had some kind of housing or were housing refugees. I'm dead tired and ready to go back.
If you slept under your own roof in a dry house last night, you should thank God for your blessings. There are millions who didn't.
Dan Gill