Week Three in Muskogee – Roofing and TV

Saturday, November 4, 2023

We continued leadership of the Oklahoma disaster rebuild this week. We had to say goodbye to Lee and Beth, our new NOMADS and friends, but welcomed Ken and Michele and Bob and Leone. Before Beth and Lee left the team had a great barbeque dinner at one of the local restaurants. Since we all worked at different houses on Thursday, we were very thankful for one last dinner together.

This week we continued the work on William’s home, almost completing the new roof. Tuesday and Wednesday, we were all either on the roof or working to support those on the roof, cleaning up and keeping us in supplies. Unfortunately, we ran out of shingles with one small section remaining.

After removing the old roofing we put down underlayment.

Jake, Ken and Bruce putting down the started rows

Jake and Angela taught Chris and Laura the finer points of roofing.

They learned quickly and were soon roofing on their own.

We ran out of shingles at this point and will have to finish next week

That meant more people were available Thursday afternoon to work on caulking and painting the new fascia and soffit Laura and Chris installed.

Anne, Leone and Michelle caulking the new soffitt

After we had to stop roofing, we started painting the soffits and fascia.

Bob took on the task of replacing an exterior door that had rotted at the bottom.

Bruce and Jan completed the repair of the vanity in the large bathroom and began the work on the smaller bath, removing the vanity, removing and reinstalling bathroom drywall damaged in the flood as well as damaged drywall in the closet. Next week we will begin with the finishing and painting of the drywall and then paint and install trim and the new vanity. Hopefully we will complete everything for William next week.

Bruce installing drywall in bathroom and closet

Max and Anne began work at Tiara’s home in Okmulgee, OK, about 45 minutes from Muskogee, Monday afternoon. This house is also being worked on by a TV show, “Fast: Home Rescue”, a show for the Weather Channel. It’s a small house and sometimes it gets very crowded. Monday, we worked on tearing out and shoring up the beams, and joists and reinstalling subflooring in the bathroom. Anne and Leone returned on Thursday for some exterior painting and painting the living room.

The bathroom at Tiara’s house before we started

We removed the ceiling in the bathroom first.

With the subfloor gone we could assess the joists and beams. ROAD replaced them and shored them up the next day.

This is some of the other volunteers that were working with the TV program

It was interesting watching how a reality program was produced.

Occasionally we had to stop making noise while they shot a scene.

At one point they used a drone to video the ROAD folks working on the roof.

Anne seems to frequently end up working on the high spots.

The weather was not our friend this week. We had record breaking cold weather with very heavy frost. We had to postpone our start time for an hour some mornings because we had to wait until the heavy frost melted off the roof. On the positive side, the grass and fields we drove by were beautiful. It was another great week in OK with lots of work accomplished for our homeowners still recovering from the flood waters.

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