Week of March 18 Baton Rouge Disaster Recovery

Three of our team left last Saturday and were replaced by only 1 team.  So instead of 14 workers, we had 8.  Nevertheless, we were able to accomplish much.

To begin the week, all 8 of us returned to the house on Norwich drive in an attempt to finish the drywall sanding and mudding. Cheri, Mary, Cindy and Stel added mud.

Then back to sanding

and wet sanding by Randy and Mary.

and Butch doing cleanup.

Bruce is removing buildup of mud on the window frames.

Next day, Randy, Mary and Butch head to Marshall's house.  He has done heroic measures to save his 4th generation house by jacking it up, removing the floor and floor joist, pouring a cement slab and then lowering the house back onto the new slab.

He refinished all the walls and bought these kitchen cabinets at a second hand store

but needs some help to install them.

He has now removed all the clutter and our team will see where the cabinets will best fit.

Day 1 complete.  They have made a good start.

Next day, Butch builds a box to attach the cabinets to the ceiling.

and a final view of their "puzzle making" here and

here and

here.

Next day, Randy and Butch return to Harry's house and look into fixing these warped counter tops.

No easy way to fix this but Butch and Randy

got-r-done.

After finishing the Norwich house, the rest of the crew returned to Pam's mobile home to contine the work previously handled by NOMADS.

This travel trailer in her driveway is where Pam has been living for over 2 years.

So inside, we again attempt to prepare this drywall for painting.  Cindy adding mud to this corner.

Bruce also mudding.

Cheri tries to dry a patch on the ceiling as she is painting the bath with primer.

Stel continues wet sanding in the kitchen.

Bruce working on stabilizing this ceiling fan.

Then he cuts trim for the seam between sidewalls and ceiling.

On the second day at Pam's, Darryl, construction coordinator, gives me news of a change of plans. A crew of high school students from Oregon is going to paint the primer for us on our day off.  With that, we change our plans to get everything ready for them.

Bruce works on fastening all the outlets and switches so they can paint

and so does Butch.

Randy helps Cindy with the sanding since he can reach without a ladder.  With everyone's help, we think we are now ready for paint.

Thursday evening we gather outside one of the RV's for a cook out.

Our team this week from the left are Randy, Mary, Cheri, Butch, Stel, Cindy and Bruce (Jodi is behind the camera). Have a good week.