Myself, Poptart, Machete, and Pemmy are currently at the East Moline, IL Fire Station. The good folks at the fire house invited us into the station for the night to get some showers, do some laundry, and get a good night of sleep.

We left Poptart’s home in Richmond, VA Monday around 1pm and drove straight through to Davenport, IA which was just shy of a 1000mile trip. We arrived just after sun up and were in need of some sleep so we decided to get a cheap motel while we started to get our bearings in the area. We woke up after napping and decided to get on the horn calling around and figuring out where to help where we linked up with the fire chief of East Moline. We met them in a lower area where a levee had broke and flooded the basements and more of an entire neighborhood. We worked that night helping out an older woman then retreated to our motel for our actual night of rest.

We headed back into East Moline today where things were in full swing, more Red Cross volunteers, invididuals, and a baptist church had arrived. We got in a little later after catching up on our missed sleep and headed back down into the shit flooded basements. We helped out a guy named Mike today who was living in the house he grew up in after his mother passed away. Basically, there was 40 years of history in this basement. We pulled out a dresser type thing and he told us it was something he made in shop class in highschool. Mike was in his 60’s by the way. It took around 4 hours to completely clean out his basement including lugging an old fridge and washer up the steep, rickety stairs. We helped Joyce from the day before a little bit more and then headed to the fire station where Rob the chief had invited us to stay.

 This is where I am now where the fire fighters here have been more than accomodating. We are probably going to help out here tomorrow a little bit in the day and then find a more severe and threatening area to head out to. More information when I can provide but as for now everything is good for us, bad for others, but getting better.

If anyone finds it in there heart I compel you to try and donate any money if you can. I have seen on the news that the American Red Cross funds have run out.

Watch out for a girl on an upside down barstool. It’s tricky and quite mesmorizing.