Waco, TX

After taking a major leap from corporate life to the gypsy life of the self-employed we find ourselves in Waco, TX. Today, like yesterday, has been a long and emotionally draining day. We have talked to 30 of our 61 claims and have heard stories of destruction and hopelessness but also stories of communities banding together to take care of their people.

One man is a mail carrier in Houston and volunteered to go to Beaumont to get the mail to the neighborhood he grew up in and to check on the elderly people who helped raise him.

We talked to a woman with close to $100,000 worth of damage to her home but has to leave before she can clean it up as her mother passed in the storm and she must tend to the arrangements.

Another woman is staying with friends as her house is still without power. She will return to her street in the morning to cook breakfast on a Coleman stove for the children in her neighborhood. There are those in our profession who are jaded and feel nothing for the people whose house they are inspecting. That is impossible for us. I don't know how to not feel for these people who have had their lives turned upside down by this storm.

Tomorrow we head into Houston. We will see 3 houses and then work on finding living arrangements. That has proven to be the most difficult part of this process so far as so much of Houston is still without power.
We will have pictures and more to talk about soon.

Love you all.