[The team found large groups gathered in churches and multi-story school buildings. They came across about 60 deaf children huddled inside a school for the deaf with only two adults watching over them.] They were terrified and couldn't communicate with us, ... They were scared at first to get on the boats. They didn't know who we were or where we were going to take them. |
As the dot-com economy collapsed and the Nisqually earthquake occurred, it became clear to people that projects of that scale were not realistic. |
I could have bought a Mercedes. But a Mercedes can't make gelato, and this machine can. |
I have to give to the community, everybody really stepped up. Everything went real well and we already know some things that we need to sit down and talk about if this happens again. |
I'd like for each church to write down how many people they could take and provide other information such as if they have available showers or whatever. That would be a big help if and when we have to do this again. |