a note from Dylan A.

Our work time is coming to an end in Bay St. Louis, but there is still so much work to be done. Today ten members including myself stayed back to work at the camp. The camp only has a few weeks left, so we were responsible for throwing away old trash or unwanted tools. My favorite discovery was an old safe we had to throw out. Those things are pretty indestructible, and very heavy. In order for the safe to fit in the already full dumpster, I had to run full speed at the dumpster with the safe falling off the dolly. I really missed being at the work site, it was hard to be away from all of the progress my friends were making. After we ran out of work to do at the camp, we went to a demolition site for an old house. Many residents abandoned their properties after the hurricane, and all that remains are old houses or nothing at all. A lot of the beachfront properties were for sale but remain hard to sell because of steep insurance rates. It is hard to drive through these neighborhoods and see complete devastation aside from one massive, rebuilt house. Many citizens simply cannot afford to move back to their family’s cherished property. The tour tonight was an eye-opening experience. There really are some extraordinary people in this world, and this hurricane brought out the best in many of them.