March 18. 2020 Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders celebrated another dedication of a house destroyed by Hurricane Harvey in La Marque, TX. Some may remember the posts with photos of when the house was demolished, the pile of rubble, the installation of the piers and beams, and the ongoing progress made over the last several months.
March 17, 2020 With the fear of COVID 19 spreading everywhere, these volunteers continue to work hard to ensure our homeowners have a safe place to live. If you look closely, you will even notice someone very familiar helping another non-profit lift a wall. Toni Karam Ratliff, Family Partner FCDR
March 16, 2020 This week’s team has really touched our hearts. We had advised the Salem Disaster Response team (Hermantown, MM) that we understood if they decided to head back home. Instead, they were all in agreement that This is where they needed to be today, and will continue working on our homes tomorrow. We
March 7, 2020 Some progress and ‘regress’ photos from a home in Pamlico County NC (or what I now refer to as the crawfish home due to crawfish in the crawlspace). When I first estimated the house repairs I couldn’t get to the attic on one end of the house so I assumed it didn’t
March 12, 2020 We had a great group of young adults from Illinois State University this week. At Raleigh Street, they were getting exterior of the house painted and the crawl space insulated. At Pleasant Hill, they got a lot of the exterior of the house repainted to black and white, got most of the
March 5, 2020 Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders (FCDR) has started another house from the ground up. This house in Texas City, Texas was so badly damaged by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 that it was "bulldozed" with an excavator machine. Then the debris was removed and the pad leveled and prepared for a concrete slab. The
March 8, 2020, Webster Presbyterian Church was happy to host another volunteer Dinner and Orientation for Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders. This group of folks came from The Congregational Church in S. Glastonbury, CT. There were ten volunteers in all for one week. This group plans one mission trip a year and they chose to join
Hurrican evacuee Pamela William’s home getting ready for dedication Some of you are aware that we’ve been dealing with a serious technical issue for the four houses underway–the pilings at two of the four homes were cut short. One house was two feet below ABFE (advisory base flood elevation) and the second was
Homeowner Malcom Salvage with volunteer Peter Salemme I hadn’t seen Malcolm (one of our first homeowners in Plaquemines Parish) in a couple of weeks so Alyssa and I stopped by to check on him. First thing I noticed was a great big empty spot where the FEMA trailer used to be! He came
First Church Congregational. Swampscott, MA takes time to pose after working in Plaquemines Parish The homes we’re building with the United Way grant are coming along nicely. This week United Way used their connections to recruit volunteers from the local community. In addition to getting a lot done, I drew much satisfaction from