Day Two...First Day of Work

Wow
What a day? Today was our first day of work, and man did we work.
We woke up VERY bright and early, quickly ate breakfast, packed our lunches and were on the road. The group got to a neighborhood with nice, crisp new looking houses on one side, and houses that obviously had been hit by the flood.
On the houses that have not been renovated yet there are X's.
On the top opening of the X is the date, the left is the group that scavenged the house, right is number of people found alive and bottom is number of bodies.
We have yet to see an X with a number on the bottom, but I'm sure the time will come.
Anyway, we got there and got a safety briefing then were assigned to Plum street. Our leaders name was Dan, a nice guy with a big tool belt. When we got to the sight, there was a lot with concrete foundation, cinder block pillars, and a frame for the floor. No plywood decking, that was our job. While AJ, Hannah, Philip, Jane, and some other people from other groups were under the frame checking for nails that had gone through.
Everyone else was on top, putting glue on the frame, placing and hammering the sheets into place, sometimes cutting, then nailing them on.
The frames for the walls were already built, but not on the house yet. We rose ONE portion of the walls. We are almost done with the flooring, and we hope to get assigned to Plum Street some more so we can see the progress. Already was have given someone a basic floor.
It was hot, the sun was beating down, and the humidity didn't help at all, but the only complaints herd were about making the youth drink water. Over all as a group, we drank over 48 bottles of water. We know we are working for a noble and honorable cause, and as much fun as we are having doing all of this, we could not wait to return to Camp Hope to take the showers that looked so gross just yesterday.
We're having fun and helping people, what more could be ask?

Thanks for reading,
The Horizon Hammers