Day Three: It's getting hot in here....

Whew, it sure is hot in Alabama!!  Here's a shot of Ken's thermometer in his truck.  Trust us, it felt way hotter.

Besides staying hydrated, we had a pretty interesting day!  We met up again with our local contact, Woody, and he sent us to a new location to help put a roof on a new storage shed.  We weren't sure of our materials when we first got there, so Tom and Lou got started on some debris pick up on one of their old sheds on the property.  Once we got an idea of what kind of roof we were going to build we got started--and by we I mean them--the most help I was today was handing people nails or just staying out of the way :).  They managed to get a nice frame up on the shed and then called it quits after about 5 hours due to the heat.

What we started with

The new frame!

We also drove through some pretty devastated areas and I was able to get a few pictures of what it looks like, close to 4 months later:

The foundation of a house to the left of the white house.

Mangled trees

More mangled trees.

 

  One of things we have talked about more than once as a group is how after the news leaves any area of devastation (natural disaster, fires, etc.) people tend to forget about who's left.  People in Alabama are still rebuilding their lives and will have to continue to do so for years to come.  Hopefully we can be a ray of hope for those left to know they are not forgotten.

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope" -Martin Luther King, Jr.

<3 Megan