Ramping it Up

After having spent most of our days working indoors getting homes ready for the homeowners, our duties shifted this week to building porches with steps or ramps.

Yes, the ladies operate the chop saw.

The homeowners Rudy and Irene were very pleased with what we built for them. Rudy said "It made him tired to watch us work.

The Coastal Bend Recovery has received funding for the replacement of mobile homes destroyed by the hurricane for qualifying persons with new ones. These are single wide, two or three bedroom units. The manufacturer supplies temporary steps, and we have been building 6 x 8 foot porches with either 4 foot wide steps or a wheel chair ramp.

Our team of 8 Canadians and Marci, a Texan who is almost speaking Canadian "eh" worked real well together. The other team of 4 Americans worked on other porches.

This porch with steps was completed in three and a quarter hours by our team.

Our team completed 2 porches with ramps and one porch with steps this week in Rockport area and Beeville, an hour drive away.

Ken and Herman had a difficult time digging holes in the soil in Beeville.

Our teams have completed 7 of the 11 porches/ramps on our directors list, but we hear there will be many more in the future.

Friday morning was the send-off breakfast for Ken and Linda from Winnipeg as they head north toward home.

Another beautiful sunset to end a pleasant day.