I want to take a moment to acknowledge some of the unsung heroes in this whole ordeal…
1 – My beautiful wife @kemcwh. While I’ve spent much of the past 3 days running around the neighborhood trying to document this whole story, Kelly has cared for 4 frightened kids, one of them with a wheezing cough, in a house with no power. Emptying out rotting food from the fridge, doing bedtime alone in the dark twice, and finding alternate routes around the damage zone to get the big girls to school on time… oh, and she’s 22 weeks pregnant.
2 – Brett Wiseman – what’s the very first thing you do when your home/building/church suffers catastrophic damage? Get on the phone. Brett Wiseman has been the guy making non-stop calls since Sunday night - all while trying to ignore the fact that his Astros have dropped to 0-2 in the World Series.
3 – Robert Lusk @rlusk64 – does anyone love/hate this building more than Robert Lusk? He’s the guy who finds the A/C unit sitting in the parking lot and actually knows which roof it should be on. And he’s got a killer beard-braid.
4 – @drewmorrill & @maryelise_morrill – after two nights without power, we vacated Chapel Downs Drive in search of light and working plugs. The Morrills have provided that and so much more, welcoming our whole family into their home for the past two nights.
5 – Oghosa Iyamu – Coordinated a slew of volunteered goods and services to put together a community dinner for 1000 people right in the middle of a disaster zone without access to her office.
6 – Jonathan Woodlief, Ian O’Donnell, @thejoshuaduncan, @cassiebryant and the rest of the @northway.church staff – Did you know they were supposed to be on their first ever staff retreat this week? Well, they’re not.
7 - @marshallcsmith – Is the chairman of the elder board, and I think he’s answered his phone every time I’ve called him in the past 3 days; @wscottcheney – let me plug in and file pictures next to a pile of his dirty laundry while he fed my kids chicken nuggets.
Obviously, this only scratches the surface of hundreds of other unsung heroes out there (that’s why they’re unsung), but these folks just needed a little love.
