Matthew along with about 100 other members of our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, travelled to Minot, North Dakota, this weekend from surrounding areas to assist with clean-up. 4000 homes were flooded.
You can see the water being pumped out of basements everywhere. And the inside of homes lining the streets.
If you click on this picture to enlarge it, you can see the where the waterline was on this house. About a third up the window. Everything up to this level had to be gutted inside the house. All the drywall, furniture, appliances,... everything was destroyed.
Everything is coated in mud, rotting, and disintegrating. These guys ripped out drywall, pulled out furniture, pretty much cleaned out everything so the frame of the house can dry out and then be rebuilt. The whole weekend Matthew worked on one house. 9 people worked there one day and 14 the next. So obviously with 4000 houses flooded, there is a lot of work to still be done.
I'm proud of these guys for the hard work they did this weekend taking the time out of from their lives to go help out a city in crisis. They were all sore, swollen, and very thankful after a long weekend of service. Our prayers are with the people of Minot. May their hearts be lifted and hope brought back into their lives.
1 comment:
Those pics tell the truth of the story. No embellishment; no exageration.
It was a great experience to go and be able to lend a hand. Very rewarding indeed.
- Andrew
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