{"id":4001,"date":"2013-06-20T13:49:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T04:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2020-07-16T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:53:51","slug":"a-day-in-moore-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/news\/a-day-in-moore-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in Moore, Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we spent the day with our friends from Nechama, a disaster response organization, who we first met and worked with after Hurricane Sandy in New York.
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\nSeeing and experiencing first-hand the kind of work that volunteer organizations are doing in the areas to help local people helped us gain a more holistic and thorough understanding of the situation on the ground.
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\nToday, we had a work order for a homeowner living in the Moore area, which was devastated by the EF5 tornado on May 20th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

The work itself consisted of breaking down the external brick wall of a house with sledgehammers, picking up the debris and taking it to the curb. The City of Moore\u2019s services would then remove any tornado-related debris from the curb for the homeowner.
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\nThis work order was necessary because the house\u2019s outer wall had been damaged and had to be removed (by hand) so that the homeowner could eventually replace it with a new wall. <\/p>\n

When volunteers provide this kind of work, this lightens the financial burden on the homeowner, who may be not be insured or who may not receive adequate monetary compensation.
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\nAs temperatures soared to over 35 degrees, we continued to hammer down the wall section by section while listening to country music on the radio.<\/p>\n

A group of volunteers from Indiana drove by, distributing food and drinks to other volunteers in the area.
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\nAs we started to work on the back area of the house, the music abruptly cut out, interrupted by the following severe weather warning:
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