Today was more of the same.  The Ginghamsburg crowd was divided into 3 separate teams.  2 of the teams were assigned drywall duty and one team was gutting houses.  Instead of posting more of the same pictures, I figure I would do something different today.  Here is a shot of the nightly group meeting:

Here are our showers.  Yes, they are outside, no roof, open to the stars.  We have hot water (sometimes depending on what number in line you are at the end of the day).  Today’s high was 59 degrees, so it was an invigorating experience.

The Hands On Disaster Response team has Wednesday’s off, however a couple of the group leads were kind enough to still take our group out to a worksite today.  We were tasked with gutting most of the Walsh’s house which was located about 150 yards from the river.

The owner came out midday to say hi.  Here's a picture of the owner and some of the team.

Here’s a before picture of the kitchen.

Here’s an after picture of the kitchen.

We piled all of the debris out at the edge of the street and at the end of the day (by coincidence) one of the debris removal trucks showed up to haul it away.

Not sure what we’re doing tomorrow.  We may be doing more work on the same house, or our team might be split again with some of us doing drywall while others of us will be gutting.  More to come tomorrow.

I was still on Ohio time and woke up about 5AM local time.  I took a few pictures of the Cedar Hills Community Church that we're staying at:

After a great breakfast, we were broken down into teams.  Specifically, the Ginghamsburg team was divided into two smaller teams.  One team of 3, which I was assigned to, was assigned to hanging and mudding drywall.  The second team was assigned "Gutting and Mucking".  This is the work of demolishing the interior of flooded houses and cleaning out the sludge left from the flooding.

The drywall team first worked on "John's" house.  John was retired and in need of help to get his house back to a livable state.  We finished hanging drywall and did some mudding as well.  Here is a picture of the stop sign, just outside of John's house where the water line from the flooding was marked. 

Inside his house, there was about 4 to 5 feet of water.  His house is 8 blocks from the river and no one ever thought it would flood that far back.

After lunch we headed to the house of the Schoettmer's.  They were located in Palo about 15 miles from Cedar Rapids.  One of our group leaders told us that 98% of the houses were flooded in this area and only 20% have been able to move back in. At this house, we also did more drywalling and for the most part finished up hanging the remaining drywall. 

After our work, they were kind enough to provide us with dinner at their house.  They regularly offer the volunteers meals, cookies, etc. and this past Saturday night, they even held a cookout for all of the neighbors and volunteers.  They are very appreciative of our work and have a strong sense of community.

Tomorrow is HODR's day off, so our entire team will be "mucking and gutting".