24 September 2008

Cleaning up after Ike


These piles of brush on the side of the road are just part of the debris we gathered out of this yard.

The call went out last weekend for people to help clean up after Hurricane Ike, so a group of us from the Schertz Ward gathered up at 5 am Saturday morning to travel to Houston to help. The emails we received made it sound like we would be cleaning up after water damage, which would have meant smelly, nasty, moldy stuff. But fortunately, the places where we went had managed to stay above water, and we were able to stick with cleaning up after wind damage.


This is the group from the Schertz ward that went to help clean up after Hurricane Ike.

Our work consisted of using chain saws to cut up downed tree limbs and then hauling the logs to the edge of the road. (My work mostly consisted of hauling logs to the road since I promised Teressa I wouldn't handle the chain saws. Oh well, I'll have to find some other way to get my power tool fix.)

1 comment:

Andrea Grover said...

Is there some back story to the "no chainsaw" rule? Like, did your chainsaw juggling trick once go awry and somebody lost a limb?