tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68735467791615459912024-03-05T00:35:31.445-08:002013 OSLC Long Island MissionMission Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02664548133664339244noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873546779161545991.post-59391029738477954992013-07-01T11:22:00.000-07:002013-07-01T11:22:07.273-07:00Welcome to the OSLC Long Island team Blog!Check back here for updates from our team!Mission Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02664548133664339244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873546779161545991.post-23619427893708188722013-07-01T11:21:00.002-07:002013-07-01T11:21:34.427-07:00Mission Trip Day one<br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">As arranged I arrived in the car lot of Our Savior at 6am, ready to help the packing of the van. To my surprise (and great delight) I found that my fellow goers had all ready arrived ahead of me, and other than a few bits and bobs (mainly my large suitcase) most of the van was ready to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pastor was there nice and early to wish us well, and after a prayer at 6:26am we were off o the road. Cliff at the wheel, the route was set. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The plan was to h</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">it 128 and pray that we would miss the traffic. Looks like someone was not praying hard enough, because we found ourselves in the middle of the rush hour. Always wonder why it has that name, as there is genuinely no rushing going on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">I don’t think we were on the road but an hour before the first request for a rest was heard, actually this one was me…Coffee was high on the requirements list to help stay awake. We were soon back on the highway heading to New London to catch the ferry across to Long Island. The ferry leaves on the hour every hour, and we were aiming for the 10am departure. All things were on our side, GPS said we had time, the traffic was light to non-existent, but then…Potty BREAK. We did arrive at the ferry port with a minute to spare, and on arrival we were asked …Do you have a reservation? NOPE….Fearing the worst a one hour wait poor Connie felt bad and kept saying if she knew we were rushing she would not have asked to stop. However that was all in vain as they allowed us to board, and we pulled on to the ferry. We had not even left our vehicles as the ferry pulled out of port. That was close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Orient Point NY was our landing spot. Just one road leading the way out so getting lost at this stage was not possible. We drove through some wonderful scenery, beaches and vineyards on both sides for as far as the eye could see. We soon stumbled across a quaint little restaurant called Skippers, and decided this was the place to have Lunch. The food was lovely and very much needed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Next it was off to meet out guide Tom. Meeting point was a gas station of of Interstate 495. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tom was a cheery fellow, we all introduced ourselves and then we all followed him to the Disaster Relief center where we had to have orientation and sign our waivers. Whilst there we were given a tour of the warehouse they use to store all of their supplies. The place is HUGE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Next it was off to the place we would be calling home for the next few nights. I think it is fair to say that we were a little anxious about this part, not having heard any thing other than warnings about the area, including from the volunteer center. When we arrived it was clear to see that we were not exactly in the posh part of town, not even close. All of the buildings were either covered in security grills or gates, and those that were not were covered in boarding’s. Right in the middle was Christ Risen Lutheran Church. You can see it is old, and it too was completely covered in grills and cages all round. We opened the cage to the car lot and pulled in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">The inside of the building still has the primary school feel to it, even though it has not been used as a school for over 6 years. There are several class rooms still with the old desks and chairs. We chose our dorms, and started to unpack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">After a wonderful dinner, a little ghost adventure (thanks to Constance and her wicked sense of humor) we were finally ready for BED. Good Night Brooklyn. Tomorrow will be a busy day.</span></div>
Mission Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02664548133664339244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873546779161545991.post-54155285758931776272013-07-01T11:21:00.001-07:002013-07-01T14:00:01.381-07:00Day 2<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><b>Day 2</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">5:15am came around way to quickly. Thinking I would be the only one up, I wondered off down the dark corridors to the make shift showers. Morning Bill, I said as he left the shower room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is now 6:15 am, and everyone is up….Nope not Everyone…Has anyone seen Constance? As Arthur just said. No worm for Connie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">After an interesting drive to the first site, we arrive at our destination 297 S Brookside Avenue, where the neighbor Hernandez who shared with us his experience of Sandy cheerfully greeted us. The front of his house looked great, you could see that a lot of recovery work had gone into it. Then he shared with me the reality of his circumstances. Hernandez invited me around his house to the back and the damage was heartbreaking. His entire first floor was gutted, and his access at the back had been swept away. The stairs are now propped up about 2 feet away from the house. He explained to us how high the water came up which is approx 10ft.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here you can see the watermark where the flooding came up to</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Lloyd the owner of the house we were there to work on came out to introduce himself to us. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The crew talking to Lloyd</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">He explained what damage had been caused to his house, and what work we were there to be doing. Today’s job is to enter a crawl space underneath the first floor, no higher than 2ft and to remove everything from inside for disposal.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me suiting up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still suiting up :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready to go in</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As you can see not much light and not much space</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">It took less than 10 minutes and we had our first casualty of the trip. Inside the room which was very large, very damp and very dark, there was an abundance of debris, including broken glass and rotten sheets of iron. Unfortunately the space was so small, one had to crawl around on hands and knees and a shard of glass found its way into my knee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Janice was amazing, not only cleaning out the wound but ensuring it was clear of any dirt, and she patched me up good as new. Connie took my place and suited up to join Arthur inside the crawl space, however within minutes the only source of light we had blew. In the short time we were there we had removed a sizeable quantity of items, but now without light and adequate protection for our knees, Ian decided to call the job off until new equipment could be sought. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Our next job was about 7 miles away from Lloyds. It was in a town called Massapequa. The road itself was very similar to S Brookside Avenue, Canal on one side and Sea on the other. They were both completely surrounded by water. However at this new location the wrath of Sandy was much clearer to see.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ian standing at the door of the next job</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the rear of the bungalow</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Across the Canal you could see houses that had been totally destroyed, in fact all round it was a rather common site to see. Either the properties were on demolition sites ready to be torn down, or they were construction sites being repaired back to their former glory.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A house across the canal from where we were working</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Our little bungalow on 8 Division Highway on the outside did not appear to be as bad as most of the surrounding properties, however once on the inside, it was a completely different picture. There were no floors and there were no walls. On this site we are going to be doing some demolition work, (Actually that was Cliff), but mainly we were to remove all of the nails and screws from all of the beams that remained, Brush and hover away all of the large debris from around the framework and then to treat the entire house with Shockwave to treat the mold. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cliff balancing on Beams</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entire property is in this condition</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ian giving instructions on what is required</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view of the kitchen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Living Room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thats how close the water is...</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Other than a short break for lunch, we worked hard for the next four hours. Everything that was needed to be done was done as requested. I was very proud to be working alongside all of the team where everyone got stuck in and gave it their all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">3:30pm came and we were all hot, sweaty and exhausted, but I think we were all proud of what we had achieved. There was just one last thing to do before we left. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Within minutes of finishing Ian and myself stripped to our boxers and ran into the ocean for a ten minute much needed swim.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The water was warm and felt great</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finally we are home back in Brownsville Brooklyn and discussing what to do for food. Cliff and I are determined that tonight we are going to find a Grill and we are going to enjoy the plethora of sausages that Cliffs boss had donated to us. We found that Grill and we all ate to our hearts content. Not only is Cliff a great driver, an awesome demolitions expert, but now I am happy to say he is a mean cook.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They look so good i can still smell them</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preparation for our banquet of Sausages :)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Good night all. We are up early tomorrow and back to Lloyds to continue where we left off. My prayers are with the team, hopefully we have the right equipment this time and no more casualties</span></div>
Mission Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02664548133664339244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873546779161545991.post-16212935915030088112013-07-01T11:21:00.000-07:002013-07-01T11:21:11.170-07:00Day 3<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">I think it is fair to say that other than Connie and Arthur, we all woke up a little later than usual. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">We all gathered into the van and set off nice and early, and by 9am we were back at Lloyds house ready to finish the job we had to abandon yesterday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Arthur and Connie, the stars of the morning both volunteered to venture into the crawl space and begin the process of removing and cleaning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Im not going to lie…It was HOT, and the space was both cramped and very very dirty. The items removed included a raised pool, lawn mowers, beer bottles in abundance and rugs older than me for sure. Everything disintegrates when you touch it, and yet between the two of them they managed to not only move out all of the big items, but swept, shoveled and bagged everything. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now that’s not to say the rest of the crew were resting, by no means was that the case. This house has completely lost the downstairs. There was so much debris that required to be removed, swept and scrubbed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">However between all of us we finished the job in less than two hours. Searing heat and extremely muggy, we all went to town and Lloyd was so grateful that he arranged for us to have Lunch in the nicest Pizzeria I have ever been too.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lloyd on the right hosting this wonderful dinner for us.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">As lunch was ending, we got our call to the next job. We all finished up and jumped into the van, and headed towards Long Beach. When we arrived at 73 Jefferson Avenue we were greeted by Nancy. She was very pleased and relieved to see us, and yet her requirements were very small. Her plight was that there were 20 plastic packing crates in her garden, that required moving to her garage. The distance was about 12 foot in total, and within ten minutes we had helped a damsel in distress. (Im sorry there are no pictures, Nancy was not dressed for pictures, and we were in and out so quickly, it never occured to me to take them)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">3</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><sup>rd</sup></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"> and final job was not to far from Nancy, down on one of the worst affected areas of Sandy’s wrath. Long Beach…..Firstly I must admit that of all the places we have been, this is one where the affects are still very visibly present. Large and small buildings all in recovery, and many plots that have been designated for demolition. Peoples homes, their lives all in a small 1500 sq.ft. plot that has been rendered useless. It is heart breaking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">We arrived at our destination, and our job was to assist in the recovery of the garage. Now I know you may think why the garage, but when you saw the contents of said garage, we realized that this was where Cathy stored everything from tools to Christmas decorations and everything you can think of in between. This was not a small job, it involved many crow bars, sledge hammers scrapers and bleach, but in three hours between all six of us we had remodeled sanitized and placed back all of her worldly contents. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the garden containing all of the contents of the Garage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of the debris from our demolition bagged and ready for collection</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Connie came up with a great idea. Lets go down to the beach and see how it was affected. We have heard so much about the destruction caused, so we took the time to go down and see it for ourselves. The entrances to the beaches are manned by people charging 12 dollars per person. Janice explained our reasons for being here and why we had come to the see the beach, and instantly they warmed to us and allowed all six of us to enter. The beach was amazingly lovely. Huge, Long and golden sands for as far as the eye can see. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">However the Board Walk that use to go from end to end all along the beach was no longer there. Instead all that remained was a long line of 7ft high concrete posts that use to hold up the millions of residents and tourist that use to walk along side the beach every year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">The power to have completely destroyed such a large structure is something one can only really think happens in science fiction movies, but over the last 3 days 6 of us have been here and witnessed the awesome power of Mother Nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finally we headed home and decided that the day had been to long so we cancelled our evening reservations at the local restaurant in favor of another home grilled dinner. As I type this in the back of the van (which is the only place we have signal to get the details of our adventures out) Cliff is standing in the rain grilling like a champ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is the end of Day 3, but im proud to say I have made 5 very great friends. God Bless you all, and hope you enjoy reading this Blog.</span></div>
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Our first job turned out to require a lot of Brute strength. First there was the demolition of the ceiling in the basement, and then the clear up and mould suppression. Whilst Connie, Janice, Bill and myself were down stairs performing those duties, Cliff and Arthur were with Howard the owner and Monil removing dead bushes plants and trees from around the entire property. </div>
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Well downstairs was completed in a very short time so I went upstairs to assist the landscapers. When I got upstairs they were all hunkered around a dead tree stump, so I picked up a shovel and started digging alongside. Two minutes later my shovel snapped. Doh.. I picked up a short-handed shovel and continued where I left off. Well not for long because I managed to snap the handle on that one too. After that I thought it best to leave it to the experts, as we could not afford to lose another shovel.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Goers at the end of our last job of the trip with Annette on the left</td></tr>
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Before we left, we were told to take a look at the bay, and especially to see a spot where a house once stood. The story told to us was that the house was torn from its foundations and floated almost a block away.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A house once stood here. Sandy washed her away</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oyster bay...At the end of the road from Annettes house.</td></tr>
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