"Small hole needs to be repaired?"

It was late Friday afternoon about 4:00. I answered my phone and it was a man asking if we could come over and help him fix a small hole in his floor. He said it should take about 15 minutes to fix. As we examined the floor and what was around it we figured it would take a bit longer.
As we walked on the floor we discovered some other "soft spots". We pointed these out to the home owner and he said lets fix those also. As we began to pull off the first layer of flooring we discovered mold growing between the first and second layer, something the home owner did not know existed. He was faced with a decision, whether to strip the top layer of flooring and bleach the second layer or just ignore the problem. He chose to remove that first layer.
When we began to do as he suggested we found the second layer of flooring was rotting away. The home owner debated what he should do. That is until he put his foot in a "soft spot", and the floor gave way beneath him as he tumbled to the ground. The decision was then made to strip both layers of flooring down to the floor joices of 2x8's. Sadly when we got to that level the floor joices were rotting as well from the sea water that Katrina had brought in.
The final decision is that the home owner will need to almost start from scratch. It is so sad to see people who do not have the resources to rebuild faced with such tough decsions. How will they ever rebuild? Who is coming to help them?
We will do all we can to assist this one family but again there are so many like them.
Please continue to pray for the people in the gulf, the needs are still so immense.