Morning of Day 3

Good morning everyone!

The calls are starting to slow down a bit, which is giving me time to update here. As we were on our way in, we noticed more stuff on the sides of the road... as people were cleaning out the flood damage, the mountains of trash that needed to be picked up seemed to practically double overnight. It's so sad to see people's personal belongings just completely ruined, sitting out there on the side of the rode waiting to be picked up by the garbage man.

At this point it seems like most people have had thier immediate needs met... they have a place to sleep, places to go for clean water, clothing, food, and other basic goods. Now the lont-term recovery phase has started... cleaning everything out and trying to make it habitable again, and figuring out what buildings may never be habitable again. They're also working frantically to make the hospital useable again... they said on the news that Columbus went from having an amazing hospital to no hospital whatsoever.

One thing that has us worried this morning is the weather forecast... it looks like we're supposed to get a bunch of rain today... possibly a few inches... and that would NOT help the situation here. We were hoping last night that the weatherman was lying to us... but as of this morning, the sky was filled with ominous looking clouds and continued reports from the weatherman telling us to watch for rain that could hit sometime this afternoon, along with damaging winds and possible hail. So yeah. That's just super. I'm still hoping the weatherman was lying and that we'll just have lots of clouds, and no (or at least not much) actual rain. Here's to hoping!