Missouri Disaster Relief, Prologue

Alright, change of plans.  Last time I wrote on here, we were preparing for a fourth round project in Boulder Colorado, full of trailbuilding, concerts, and leisure.  Since then, the middley parts of our country got hit with a record number of tornadoes, with over 900 in the month of April.  On April 27^th alone, there were 164, killing nearly 300 people.  In light of all that tragedy, NCCC is sending a bunch of teams (including ours) to the front lines of the devastation in Alabama, Arkansas and Missouri.  Oh, and the Mississippi River is flooding.  There’s that too.  It’s a disaster, wrapped in a calamity, nestled in a box of shitty shit.  Boulder can wait.

This coming Monday, we head to St. Louis to clear debris and work at a call center.  We’ll be sleeping on cots, working twelve hour days (or longer), six days a week.  It’s bound to be the most difficult, horrible, and intense part of this year, but I’m really happy to be going.  Boulder doesn’t really need our help, but St. Louis really does. That's why we're here in the first place- to help- and I'm eager to do what I can.  Plus, they have that big archy thing there, which is neat.

I’m a little short on pictures (and levity) this week, so I’ll end with a few postcards. 

According to the back of this postcard, this whale is a waterpark along Route 66.  Bring your own slide.  And your own fun.  (Thanks Katie V and Patrick Q)

Thanks to Erika Whittaker for this one.  Another purrr-fect day at the meow-ntain.  I hope he wore a warm cat pelt.

Finally, thanks to Jess Kaari for this siren.  Apparently I went to all the wrong places when I was in Arizona.

More soon. On to St. Louis!