Wicked storm and progress on the house...

THE HOUSE: Will & I went back to work on the house we started w/the group from Tullahoma last week and great progress is being made. The walls are up, the plumbing for the bathroom is in, the header is poured, and 3 of the inside walls are stuccoed! We'll return today to work on more of the stuccoing (we're taking Mauricio w/us to give us a hand). It remains brutally hot, tough work; but it's getting done...thanks for all your prayers.

Stuccoing the corner is the tough part

The header is getting the final touches.

Some of the plumbing for the bathroom

Remember each block is 3.3' long!

THE STORM:

Tuesday night we had a tornado-type storm here that knocked out our electricity about 5:00 p.m. and worse yet caused flooding throughout our house....every window in the house leaked water (they don't bother to caulk around anything down here)...the wind was literally blowing the rain sideways and the lightning was illuminating the entire sky.

We mopped, and mopped, and mopped, and then we mopped some more. Finally the rain subsided and we got ahead of the leaks, but every towel, blanket, and rag in the house had been used to stuff in the windows to slow down the in-coming water. Oh, did I mention it felt like an oven...no fans, no air, no lights, NO FUN! Finally around midnight the power came back on and everyone gave a shout out to God!!!