Just finished the daily debriefing we’ve been doing in the evenings. This has been a great group of guys to work with this week. Today we were joined by Pastor Matsumoto and Mr. Takahashi from the Yamagata Deaf Peoples Church. It was good to get reacquainted.
Today it was good to work with a bigger group of volunteers than yesterday. With a team of eleven, five of whom were from CRASH Japan, we were able to clean up an apartment the Aizawa’s from yesterday hooked us up with. No one was there and the directions from the day before were to clean everything out. It was much easier than having to ask about seemingly every little thing.
Later in the day after helping several people out with small things we came upon an elderly man who ws beginning to clean out his house all by himself. In about an hour and a half with the full team we were able to get the rooms cleaned out and the mud scraped up. There is at least 1/2 “-3/4” of mud covering the floors. Mr. Sato was very appreciative. He asked for directions to the church so he could go thank them in person. He also gave us a lead on an elderly lady down the street who we could help tomorrow.
Starting tomorrow I will be on the insurance for Mark’s van. He and Mary Esther have graciously let me have the use of their van for the next two weeks. Depending on the churches needs, I may be returning to Tokyo with Mark to pick up supplies and then return. They have a few pressure washers and are wanting a few generators to allow teams to help clean up the outside of people’s homes where the water line is very visible. That would give them the opportunity to continue to serve the community after the inside cleanup is done. A large majority of houses have the ruined, wet furniture and tatami removed from their houses.
Friday going out with Mark and the deaf guys to see if we can find deaf people who were affected by the tsunami and need help.
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