The worst feeling someone can get is when something terrible happens, and they cannot do anything about it, no matter how hard they try. That happened here recently, after all kinds of rain flooded the entire area and has left many people virtually homeless until their houses are cleaned, disinfected and rebuilt to the way they were before the flooding.
Here’s a picture of how high the water got down the street from my friend, and this wasn’t even on the first day of flooding (click to enlarge):
My friend’s house was in pretty bad shape last week, with the water being 4-5 feet high on his street, and filling his entire basement, garage, and part of the first floor of his house with water. On Wednesday, we went over and hung around there, and basically just watched as the water seeped through everything and damaged tons of things in and around his house. It was hard to watch, considering that’s about all we could do during the time we were waiting. We decided to build a raft from junk wood that we found, including a fence that was busted from the rushing waters and washed up onto the dry part of the street, and a pallet that was near the garbage at the nearby CVS. Building the raft was fun, it got everyone’s minds off of the stuff that was going on, and we were determined to get it to float.
Here’s a picture of my friend as were were building the raft (click to enlarge):
The raft was finished, and we ended up getting it to float. It was pretty cool, considering this was made from scraps. Here’s a picture of it floating in the flooded street (click to enlarge):
Now, everyone is just trying to clean up and many people are forced to basically start over. New appliances, furnaces, water heaters, and just every day items need to be replaced, as well as doors, floors, walls, and other things that were ruined by the water. I’m doing what I can to help out, but sometimes I feel like it’s not really enough and that I should be doing more. I guess we can only do so much, but it still feels like I should be doing more than I am. Some people say that helping out for something like this is a nice thing to do, but I figure that any decent human being should be doing the same thing. God put us on this Earth to help others and if we don’t, the human race will cease to exist. People cannot live by themselves and totally on their own. So I think everyone who is able to should be willing to help out. I guess it can be considered a nice thing to do, but most importantly it’s necessary to help others out so that they can get their lives back to normal.
I was lucky to be virtually untouched from this storm, because I live on top of a hill, and I feel terrible for the many who lost all kinds of things from this storm. The things that were lost are expensive to replace, and a disaster like just plain sucks. Put yourself in their perspective… if something like this had happened to you, would you want others to help you out? If your answer is no, than I guess you hate everyone. There are many decent human beings in this world, you just need to work to find them. There are also many scumbags, like the ones next door to my friend who were taking his garbage (ruined by the flood) as we were putting it by the curb. But as I have seen in the area by my friend, there are also many good people who are willing to help, and they are needed to help clean up this mess. Hopefully everything will work out well.
Posted by Kevin 
