Saturday, everyone hit it hard for their last day working

The Lubbock crew didn't get back till 9:00 at night. They planned to knock off at 3:00 and see the beach since they had been working in Galveston, only blocks from the water all week and hadn't gone, but they ended up unloading a surprise 18 wheeler of food and supplies from Nashville at the Broadway Church and got to the ocean about dark.

The Harding crew cleared Walter's house in San Leon and his yard, what I thought was more than a day's job. They finished by noon! After having lunch on the shore of Galveston bay, they headed down to Galveston to pick up more door to door work with the Lubbock crew. They have a professional journalist in their crew so I hope to have more links to post on their work for his stories and pictures soon.

The Northside Christian team spent a third day at Sharon and Brandon's house helping her to sort her stuff and part with that which is not recoverable. You can imagine how painful this can be to throw away all you have...

There is still an entire lot of fallen trees she owns next to her home that we have to clear.

The 4th group for the weekend was a "young marrieds" (or almost there) group from Prestoncrest Church of Christ in Dallas. They cleared the home of Jerry and Connie in Shore Acres. I walked in and they introduced me, but before they even got my name out, Connie had worked her way around the stuff piled in the room and grabbed me for a hug.





They both had tears for the hearts of the crew that had given their time to help them out.

I drove through the neighborhood since I hadn't been there yet. It's just as bad as San Leon. Chalmette type of Neighborhood, but the houses right on the bay are battered and one burned badly during the storm. Of the 640 homes in the burg of less than 1500 residents, 575 had at least four feet of water.