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						<p class="post-meta"> by <span class="author vcard"><a href="http://www.290cc.org/author/sbronstad/" title="Posts by 290CC" rel="author">290CC</a></span> | <span class="published">Sep 9, 2017</span> | <a href="http://www.290cc.org/category/missions/flood-relief/" rel="category tag">Flood Relief</a> | <span class="comments-number"><a href="http://www.290cc.org/hurricane-harvey-relief/#respond">0 comments</a></span></p>
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					<h1 class="p1"><span class="s1">&#8220;So how does this end? When do you stop?&#8221;</span></h1>
<p><em>By Penny Moore, from her Facebook page 11:45pm Saturday, September 10th 2017&#8211; Relief stories two weeks &#8220;after&#8221; Hurricane Harvey</em></p>
<h4 class="p1"><span class="s1">I&#8217;ve been asked that question several times. I&#8217;ve stumbled through my replies and often said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;</span></h4>
<h3 class="p1"><span class="s1">Tonight, I know.</span></h3>
<p><div id="attachment_1976" style="max-width: 542px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/aggies.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1976" src="http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/aggies.jpg" alt="" width="532" height="399" srcset="http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/aggies.jpg 532w, http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/aggies-300x225.jpg 300w, http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/aggies-510x382.jpg 510w" sizes="(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shout out to our Aggies who drove in and did work!</p></div></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Today as we neared lunch time, (ok it was 10:15 but I&#8217;m always thinking about food), my friend texted what do you need me to do? I quickly replied, &#8220;food, we&#8217;re going to need more food!&#8221; I had sack lunches coming but I could see, we would be feeding way more than I had planned on. Like a whole street of people. We went from bare bone groups during the week to a full army of help today! It was great!! </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We were on a cul de sac and had a corner houses and one in the center on our agenda. Everytime I walked to check in on my people I had to pass the houses (4 on each side)&amp; twice, people were entering for the first time in 12 days. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I have no words to explain what this looks like, I&#8217;ll write it in detail in a later post on my blog, but it&#8217;s gripping! You see them take in the exterior &amp; approach the door&#8230;&amp; once it opens it just all goes bad. Do you respectfully enter their pain? Or quietly look away? I don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s the worst feeling&#8230;&amp; although I&#8217;ve done both, neither is less painful.</span></p>
<h3 class="p1"><span class="s1">But let me tell you what lifts people&#8217;s spirits&#8230;hot fried chicken &amp; biscuits. </span></h3>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I don&#8217;t even eat fried food. But I carried a fried chicken breast with me all day long! I kid you not, I did not throw that thing away until I had eaten it to the bone &amp; finally made it to my home tonight. When I opened the first box-BOOM people swarmed in. It was amazing.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I wish I had a picture: a street of debris, a stench of human waste and 2 week old refrigerated food, and still you could smell the chicken &amp; those beloved biscuits the moment she opened her trunk. Hand to God, It was spiritual. People standing around eating brown bag lunches &amp; chicken &amp; those hot beautiful biscuits. </span></p>
<h3 class="p1"><span class="s1">I&#8217;ll never forget it.</span></h3>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">As we ate I looked over and saw a woman entering her home across the street. I waited for a moment, but knew this was no good. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">As I approached she came back out &amp; tears spilled from her eyes. We hugged &amp; I held her &amp; she said, </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&#8220;I&#8217;m single, I have no family here &amp; few friends, what am I going to do?&#8221; and </span> I tearfully replied, &#8220;You&#8217;re going to come home with me. But first, we have to get this house dried out. And I&#8217;ll need to know your name.&#8221;</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I drove back tonight alone to walk the street and just process &amp; pray for the families that these homes represent. I prayed for all the helpers I could think of by name, I prayed for 290 community church, bayou city fellowship, foundry church. I hoped and prayed that people will connect with these families and stay the course. That we&#8217;d all be &#8220;Good Finishers.&#8221; </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">As I was coming to my car, I encountered a small group and it was being discussed that after 14 days it&#8217;s time to bring in the professionals. I hesitate to say this, but after listening, and hearing their concerns, I know that tomorrow, Sunday, September 10th is the last day for demo for my group. 😥</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">My heart races as I write these words, but we&#8217;re talking 4-6 FEET of waste water &amp; rain water that has been sitting in these homes for over 10 days. There are still several streets that are impassable just 2 streets over.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I&#8217;m bringing a power washer tomorrow to power wash the INSIDE of peoples homes. It&#8217;s absolutely crazy. This doesn&#8217;t even compute in my brain to be doing this!</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Many, maybe all of us, on our team have sore throats and weary bones. From 5-75 we are all out there. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I&#8217;m running first aid like a first time mother! </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&#8220;You wash it, clean it, sterilize it and cover it or you don&#8217;t go in the house, you hear me!!&#8221; I&#8217;m<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>stressing about scratches. And torn cuticles. For real!</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Even my precious dishwashers (God bless them-7 HOURS washing in buckets in the sun!) have knicks and scratches.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It&#8217;s time. I hate it, but it&#8217;s time.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We&#8217;re nothing but a random group of helpers-but your health &amp; safety is priority 1 or we will not finish well. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We are closing out phase 1. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I have &amp; will continue to weep over this. But I know. I think we all know.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">***But hang on&#8230;Hold your horses&#8230;***</span></p>
<h3 class="p1"><span class="s1">Phase 2 is coming&#8230;so don&#8217;t wipe your brow in relief just yet. There is much WORK to be done, I haven&#8217;t been watching DIY videos for nothing!!</span></h3>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Yet&#8230;the drying out has to take place first. Some grieving, some small steps towards healing &amp; some rest is required for us to carry on and finish well. It will be a brief break, but NOT a disconnection. I have ALL your numbers and I will track you down like a serial killer, so don&#8217;t even think about &#8220;unfriending&#8221; me on fb yet&#8230; I&#8217;ll find you!</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I&#8217;m going to post more about<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>this Monday. But for now, I want to stay present where we are today (note: &#8220;Today&#8221; was September 10):</span></p>
<h3 class="p1"><span class="s1">We need you. </span></h3>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">SUNDAY 9:30. Meet us at 15### Sandy Hill Dr. Houston, Texas 77084</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We start there &amp; finish the house across the street and the one in the middle &amp; then we move on to </span><span class="s1">15### Sandy Hill.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Our goal is to finish phase 1 of all our houses &amp; help the rest of the people on this street finish up as well. There are 8 homes in the cul de sac &amp; another 16 down the other side of the street. We want to leave this street in phase 1 dry out. It will require everyone to be apart and do their part! EVERYONE.&amp; ANYONE. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Show up and ask for GREG, ALLISON OR PENNY&#8230;if they know us they can show you how/where &amp; get you engaged, if they don&#8217;t-keep asking!</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We provide limitless opportunity:</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Dish washers, packers, sheetrock tear out, furniture haul out, emotional support to our homeowners, EATING -we always eat!, hauling trash and literally emptying homes out completely -to the curb.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It&#8217;s disgusting. It&#8217;s smells awful, but it&#8217;s a day you will never forget. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Just driving to this street will be overwhelming for most. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It will be packed by noon. Literally a traffic jam in the hood, but PLEASE consider taking the day &amp; helping these families start the process of moving forward.</span></p>
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					<h1>Phase 1: The End</h1>
<p><em>By Penny Moore, from her Facebook page 11:45pm Sunday, September 10th 2017&#8211; Almost two weeks &#8220;after&#8221; Hurricane Harvey</em></p>
<h3>Rolled into the street of houses for today at 9:17 am.</h3>
<p><strong>Cooking with Kim</strong> rolled up and unloaded 6</p>
<p><div id="attachment_2007" style="max-width: 451px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/philandboys.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2007" src="http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/philandboys.jpg" alt="" width="441" height="265" srcset="http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/philandboys.jpg 441w, http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/philandboys-300x180.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Phil, Matthew and Alex</p></div></p>
<p>breakfast casseroles. Hot. They were hot!!! &amp; so freaking good!<br />
Y&#8217;all this breakfast thing was amazing and gave us a pep in our step as we faced an &#8220;easy&#8221; morning of finishing up.<br />
You see, another group had arrived and they had already started working in our houses. The &#8220;yellow squad&#8221; was on fleek &amp; clearly a bunch of early birds. Yay! Easier day for my team! Ain&#8217;t no selfishness here&#8230;plenty of germs to share in this petri dish!</p>
<p>It started as simply a finishing spree &amp; seemed totally do-able. It was so do-able that I decided to take a leisurely walk down to the last &#8220;new start&#8221; house &amp; take it in. We got this! We&#8217;re pros. We&#8217;ll Bust this out and be sippin&#8217; fine wine by 4:00!</p>
<p><div id="attachment_1975" style="max-width: 409px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/vinyl_greg.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1975" src="http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/vinyl_greg.jpg" alt="" width="399" height="532" srcset="http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/vinyl_greg.jpg 399w, http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/vinyl_greg-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">I have no words&#8230; our fearless leader. &#8220;Vinylman&#8221; Greg Despres</p></div></p>
<p>The lady met me in the street &amp; burst into tears. I&#8217;m like &#8220;it&#8217;s ok honey, we are totally gonna get you to the dry out phase today. No problemo, my peeps are the bomb!..&#8221; Then I walked in, &amp; stepped near the kitchen &amp; turned around and walked out. I threw up my awesome breakfast in her front yard.  I muttered, &#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry, I&#8217;ll be back&#8230;I promise.&#8221; I raced back down the street and just started yelling <strong>&#8220;GREG!!! Greg! You gotta come. NOW!!&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>At the same time a clean cut man enters and says-&#8220;Good morning! Yall seem like you know what you&#8217;re doing and are getting it done well, we have an elderly man and wife who need help.&#8221; Oh and by the way, the man does not have any hands. Could y&#8217;all please help them.&#8221;</p>
<h3>THIS IS NOT A LIE!! He said it exactly like that!</h3>
<p>I looked at Greg shaking my head &#8220;No!! We can&#8217;t..&#8221;</p>
<p>Greg looked at me</p>
<p>I looked back at Greg and he said, &#8220;Penny gather up the <strong>&#8216;yellow squad&#8217;</strong> <em>(folks from a local LDS Ward)</em> and send them with him.&#8221;<span class="_5mfr _47e3"><img class="img" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fd0/1/16/1f602.png" alt="" width="16" height="16" /><span class="_7oe">😂</span></span><br />
Because although I&#8217;m easily excitable, I truly don&#8217;t flip off the edge very often, and i was teetering on jumping.</p>
<p><strong>I knew it &amp; he knew it.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/sewagerabbit.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2008 size-thumbnail" src="http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/sewagerabbit-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" srcset="http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/sewagerabbit-150x150.jpg 150w, http://www.290cc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/sewagerabbit-75x75.jpg 75w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>Once Greg &amp; I got back to the other house he was like, &#8220;go back to the other house and gather Chris, Ray, Alex &amp; Jason.&#8221; (God love them, you don&#8217;t even know what they&#8217;ve endured). &#8220;Have them suit up! Then, you tell the rest of the team to finish up down there and take over completion of those houses. Once they are through, send them all down here.&#8221;</p>
<p>I just nodded and took off running&#8230;again! #<strong>I.hate.running.</strong> &amp; keep in mind I&#8217;m running down the street about a quarter mile each way in rain boots and a tool belt.</p>
<p>I get there, gathered the guys &amp; took 2 stomach strong ladies with me. (I&#8217;m sure as heck not going it alone!)</p>
<p>I told everyone else-&#8220;Look, just finish well&#8221; (&amp; under my breath I whispered- if you&#8217;re smart, you&#8217;ll work slow!) &#8220;&amp; when you&#8217;re done come down to the other house!&#8221;</p>
<p>We briskly walked back, and I gave the &#8220;poor 4&#8243; the run down:&#8221;Everyone wears a garbage bag, everyone wears a mask, everyone double gloves. We&#8217;re not jackin&#8217; around here.&#8221; We walked in &amp; I walked towards kitchen explaining the plan &amp; AGAIN bolted to yard to throw up. <span class="_5mfr _47e3"><img class="img" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fd1/1/16/1f922.png" alt="" width="16" height="16" /><span class="_7oe">🤢 </span></span>You know it&#8217;s bad when Greg is passing out peppermint oil for our masks!!</p>
<p>I can laugh now, But the whole thing made me cry. It was just overwhelming. I will never understand why the county did not hire people to do this for the homeowners. It would have been the LEAST that could have been done for this area that was intentionally flooded and covered in sewage &amp; left for almost 2 weeks!</p>
<h3>I called in a LOT of favors today. BIG ONES &amp; people showed up.</h3>
<p>People on site -I can never repay you. I can only say, may we NEVER encounter this again, but if we do-I&#8217;ll stop drop and roll for you! (&amp; by me, I mean Brandon.) Several of you went and bought large expensive fans and brought them to the street. You came with tools, you came with generators, you came with food, you came with drinks &amp; ice! You came &amp; helped &amp; you showed up &amp; we actually <strong>FINISHED WELL!!!</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;m exhausted. &amp; I know y&#8217;all are all so over me and my insane passion for this city &amp; specifically this area!</p>
<h3>I&#8217;m over me too. I really am.</h3>
<p>I&#8217;m soooo over me, that I&#8217;m giving you a chance to catch your breath, and waiting to roll out &#8220;what&#8217;s next&#8221;, in a few days.<br />
This week I&#8217;ll (a few others are doing this as well) go by each house we demo-ed in the last 2 weeks and check in, get needs &amp; start the process of phase 2.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got HUGE plans for my meeting with JJ (I kid, I kid&#8230;it&#8217;s really YOU!)to explain the best way to help these families!<br />
I&#8217;m excited to move on &amp; re build with them, but I&#8217;m sad to know there&#8217;s so much displacement and heartache.<br />
I&#8217;m praying for the kids as they transition to school &amp; the teachers&#8230;I just pray mercy over you all!&#8230;I&#8217;m not in charge here, but I&#8217;m just saying to hell with test scores -just love these babies this week! Let us know your needs as these kids come in so we can help you help them!</p>
<p>We &#8220;step out&#8221; to take a breather, but we will &#8220;step in&#8221; shortly.<br />
Rest. &amp; pray what your part looks like moving forward&#8230;we will move forward!<br />
In a nutshell, in 1 day we ended with:</p>
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<li>4 tetanus shots<br />
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<li>1 free beer</li>
<li>blisters from rain boots</li>
<li>GREAT FOOD</li>
<li>lots of helpers</li>
<li>a lil&#8217; bit of vomit</li>
<li>&amp; 4 hopeful homeowners with phase 1 completed houses on 1 street!!</li>
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<h3>That&#8217;s a record I hope I never get to beat!</h3>
<p>I&#8217;m so grateful for you!  Cheers to phase 1 being in the books!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/penelope.moore.391/posts/10155673034087354">https://www.facebook.com/penelope.moore.391/posts/10155673034087354</a></p>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Click button above and designate <strong>Harvey Relief</strong></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Clean up is ongoing here in Houston, Texas.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>We are amazed to see the sheer numbers of volunteers that are trying to work against the clock to help those whose homes were ravaged by the floods of Harvey.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>We are Blessed&#8211; </b></span><span class="s1">We don’t want to say, “God bless you and not meet physical needs.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Lives are Displaced&#8211; </b></span><span class="s1">Dreams are being broken.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Kids are displaced at the start of school.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Would you be able to give a One-Time gift? </span></strong><span class="s1">Would you as a church giving a one-time gift to this work?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Would you consider making this need known to the people of your church?</span></p>
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<p class="p2"><strong><span class="s1">Teams of qualified workers who can do drywall hanging, taping and floating, painting, flooring and cabinet install.</span></strong></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Do you have the ability to do home fix ups?<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>If so and are not afraid to sleep on someone’s couch and eat cereal in the morning, sandwiches for lunch and some spaghetti at night, then you could come to Houston to help.</span></p>
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