Cedarville to the Rescue!!!!

I was very blessed this past weekend when Dr. Carl Ruby arrived in the city with a dozen students from Cedarville University. Dr. Ruby, shown here demonstrating a new use for snow shovels, guided a group of about 250 students into our devastated city. Most of them tackled the enormous job of cleaning out Benjamin Franklin High School, on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain on the UNO campus. This was also the site of one of the levee breaks on the London Avenue Canal. The dozen or so students ripped out remaining carpet and moved furniture into the back two rooms upstairs and the garage, which have become temporary storage units. Then they began the exhausting task of pounding away at 80 year old plaster walls and shoveling the debris out of open windows.
I took some things to my crowded storage unit in Denham Springs. It's hard to find storage units anywhere within 150 miles of the area now. Here goes a mattress out of my front door.
The students were totally adaptable. Some of them jumped from being visqueen/furniture wrappers to furniture movers. Note the permanent smiles on their faces! Someone recently remarked: It has to be Jesus to make you want to come here! How true. But, perhaps one day things will be different.