Day 2: Sunday March 10th
How has the experience meet your expectations, if not what is different? Annie - My experience was different today than what I expected because I did not really have any idea what to expect. I knew we would be working with molds and water damaged homes but I did not expect to be working in apartment complexes or to be sorting so many different parts of a house. I think I expected a single home somewhere where floodwaters would have gotten to it, not the first floor of a heavily populated area where people would be going on with life like nothing had happened and it was all a moment in the past. It was also surprising to see how much wood, metals, dry wall, and extra furniture’s can come out of one little apartment and how much can be destroyed in one big storm.
Team Fantastic Four: Group fantastic four was really touched on a lot of topics that they now realize are so important and can be easily taken for granted. The first one was just the fact of having a roof over our heads. We take that for granted each day and these people don't even have that necessity. Secondly, to go along with a roof over their heads, these people don't even have a place to call their home. We call even our residence halls at Purdue homes and these people don't have a chance to even call something a temporary home. Thirdly, this family has lost most of what they call tangible memories. It is hard to think about losing everything: pictures or home videos. And finally these families have lost any sense of security. We can't imagine not having a sense of security; it would make for many hard, worrisome nights.
