Goshen, Litchfield, Salisbury & Warren Joint Church Youth Group Trip to New Orleans for Katrina Relief

Today we traveled from Hartford to
New Orleans without a hitch!  Moving through an airport with 35 other people to keep track of is something different for me.  After we landed in
New Orleans, we picked up three fifteen passenger vans and one cargo van for our luggage and drove from the airport to the house that we are staying in.  The house is on quiet street and we were pleased to find that the house is air conditioned which will feel great after a hard day in 90 degree humidity. 

After dinner to night we had a meeting of the upcoming week and practiced our parts for the church service at the detention center with the teen age detainees.  After service we will come back to the base house, change our clothes and head out for a tour of the damaged areas. 

We found out today that we will spend most of our time in the field gutting homes.  This will require our teams to remove the drywall that was spoiled by the flood waters and carry it to the curb where the FEMA tractors will load it into dump trucks.  This will be our main activity for Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  This work will be done on homes that they know the owners are coming back to. 

Bob