The Damage

<Eventually pics will be added to this blog>

On Tuesday it stopped raining. I knew the earlier I tackled clean up the better because there was no air con and it wasn’t going to get any cooler.  But though I didn't have power, I never lost my water!  Hallelujah! (I did know people to lose water. I was just blessed.)

The grounds around the church compound wasn’t too bad.  I have a feeling it was because there was a typhoon 3 months ago (and a major one 3 years ago). So all the small trees had already blown down.  Mostly it was just leaves.  I did find a poor dead bird.

The solar lights blew off the church so that was the real damage on the outside.

Inside the Sanctuary, the front doors had been blown open. We had covered the glass doors with a tarp, then typhoon shutters, then sandbags. But a significant amount of water still got in the church.  However except sweep out the tiled foyer, there was nothing I could do without power.  So the water just got to sit in the carpet and get smelly. Very smelly.

The Sunday School building still had it’s roof! Praise the Lord. But there was more leaking…more damaged ceiling tiles… So I swept up the water from all the expected places, picked up the tiles, swept up the tiles.  But the pastors office, that has carpet, got flooded.  Again, nothing I could do without power. So it got smelly. Very smelly.

Then I go back in the house and find more water. HOW!?  I’m going to be a really good mopper when this is all said and done.