The Dayton crew plus Tom and Sue from Spring Road finished demucking the house they started yesterday. This shows the house from the outside and you can see the water line just at the tops of the windows.
This picture shows all the colors of mold growing in the house and the stuff jumbled around.
The crew removed all the stuff from the house and started tearing down the drywall.
When they were done, you can still see a lot of mold growing on the studs, but the soggy material is all out so the house can dry out. They also found a lot of insect damage from the house being damp for so long.
This picture shows Kevin topping off "Kevin's Mountain".
When they finished the first house today they moved on to another one where the homeowner had torn out a lot of the drywall himself and finished it up. They're living in a FEMA trailer in the driveway.
This is the whole crew except for Tom, who must have taken the picture.
Tim, Stevie, Enver, Gary Schubert, and I dropped off the drywall team to work at Joy Fellowship, a church in Slidell that is pushing a renewed effort to provide hot meals, food boxes, and all the rest of the stuff Tammany Oaks was distributing directly after the storm. Tammany Oaks has become a hub of volunteer labor and supplies that feeds into other churches like Joy. The building used to be a catfish restaurant, was very rustic, and quite kewl!
Though Joy closed for the day due to the heavy rain, the McMillen wives and some ladies from California working through a church in Covington (across the highway from Mandeville) packed up more food boxes than there was room to store.
The guys loaded in a fresh semi load and a half of goods while other California based helpers sorted gloves, coats, and other cold weather items to fill 200 orders the church has taken for assistance.
Only 10 have been filled, but after the complete reorganization of their inventory we did today they'll be able to get those out. None too soon, by the time we left today (I in shorts and a T-Shirt) the temperature had dropped into the 40s.
We had to wait on a last truck due at 6:00 so the guys (with talent) jammed on the great instruments and sound system the church had in place.
The drywall crew working on Miss Ella's house made massive progress, though we still don't have enough drywall. 
They are taking tomorrow away from that job to demuck the home of a new church member who relocated to Columbus and will finish the drywall on Thursday.The warehouse construction crew was hard at it again today building additional supporting columns and cutting holes in the cement for new footers to support the growing volunteer residence. I'm going on that job tomorrow so I'll get some up to date pictures.
Good night for now. We miss you all, but we're basking in the glory of working in God's kingdom for this week. This is an incredible team He's put together I can't get enough of any of the people on this trip and find it amazing how well we work together, how jocular everyone is with each other, and what amazing, loving people these volunteers are. You who have loved ones on this trip should be very proud of them and their commitment to work here. They are amazing.
John McGuire
Servants Unite!
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