Arizona!

Soon we are leaving Texas and going back to Denver. There we will debrief from this project and get ready for the next one. This round is a shuffle round, which means that we are switching teams and team leaders. It makes for a little excitement and means that we got assigned our project before we normally would. I am going to Crown King, Arizona to fight fires and live in the mountains about two and a half hours away from Phoenix. We are getting really excited to be leaving Texas and everyone is psyched for the next round!
We went to a Mardi Gras celebration in Port Aurthur last weekend, which apparently a quarter million people go to from Thursday to Sunday of parades. Tomorrow, we are going to work with Churches of Christ, who will give us a house to gut. This weekend, we are going to do a cleanup in Sabine Pass, which is definitely needed.

disaster in tx

Today, we started a new project in Sabine Pass, which should be pretty interesting. We are going to buildings that were destroyed in the hurricanes and writing down all information we can about them and their exact location using a GPS. We will be doing this for the next couple of days and then moving on to Port Arthur.

These are pictures from when we went to Chambers County to check out the damage.

We even got to get super close to an alligator! Kimmy wanted to get even closer!

The tubes in the picture three from the bottom of the page used to be buried under the ground to protect the homes that were all along the beach from storms, but now it is about eight feet above ground.

These wires along the side of the road were never repaired and are still in the bushes.