Collaboration

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Today we split our team and the guys (Chris, Jamin, Britt, Guercy, Bookson, and me) went out to the construction site and the women (Lillie, Lauren, Val, Judy and Tamara) stayed back at the compound to sort through the medical supplies and inventory them. The cleaned up one of the rooms at the compound and set up the shelves they could find around the compound to use.

I checked the weather for tomorrow and it is expected to be 97 with a heat index of 110. This is probably what we have had the last two days and why it has felt so hot. As I am typing this email we are watching the lightening in the distance, but as of yet we have only gotten some sprinkles.

While out at the construction site we have gotten to the point where we are hiring two of the local contractors to help with the house. Our two contractors are teaching them what we know about construction in earthquake and hurricane prone areas and they are teach our guys what works down here. It looks like we are coming up with a good middle of the road approach that should help us develop a process going forward for building homes. We are not abandoning the stick frame approach yet, but definitely need to find a more economical way to do it than buy wood supplies here.