I haven't blogged for a while, but since I don't have a journal and I can't quit thinking about some things, I decided I would blog.
Our best friends, Tiffany and Rhett, live in Texas. They have been through a few hurricanes. They have been evacuated, had some damage at their home, and just been inconvenienced and frustrated before. Then Hurricane Ike surprised them with all the damage they are now dealing with. If I went by what I have heard on the news I would have never known anything happened to Bridge City, Texas. Well, Bridge City was under 4 feet of water and more in some places. Which is more than enough water to ruin everything in your home and in some peoples case, the whole home! They now are basically starting from scratch with their home other than before you can start to rebuild, you have to do all the clean-up. There is also all the time put into making sure you get rid of all the mold. Since it is so humid there, that is tricky and very time consuming!
Everything inside the house is ruined. What few things they have tried to save, have ended up moldy and ruined on the front lawn for lack of any way to wash or get to all of them in time.
Tiff has only the clothes she evacuated with, but like the unselfish mother she is, she took more things for her kids than for herself.
They have a big family here in Utah, but no one in Texas to help them. We have no idea how to help them! Some of their fam is going out soon, but the house is just sitting drying out. They do have alot of clean-up outside, and lots of shopping to do(if the insurance pays soon)!
They need everything! They are like newlyweds just starting out, but with two kids!
What is so amazing about them, is they still can find the things that they have been blessed to have through all of this! She will be telling me all the things that keep going wrong(to me, nothing is going right for them)but then she will be able to name some blessing they have had too.
I always have looked up to them for all they have been through, and how well they handle their trials. They have had more than thier share of trials, and now this!
I can't quit thinking and praying for them. I know they will make it through this, and I definitely can learn alot from them. I just wish we could do more than send them a gift card to Walmart! It is so frustrating!
I talk to her and I know I don't say the things I should say. I can't seem to express to her how proud I am of her and Rhett! What a great example they have been to us. How much I miss them and wish we were closer so we could do something! That I wish we just had lots of $ to give them to help out with all they are needing.
I am grateful though that they are safe and healthy! I just have to remember that!