 We're in Montpelier Vermont. We are at a a new apartment. We're at a downtown apartment We're gonna be here for a couple of weeks Until we move back to Chittenden Our old place got really moldy Extremely moldy. We lost a bunch of our stuff Because of it lost a bunch of our stuff because of it the carpet and our bedroom was a little damp So I pulled it up to look underneath and I noticed that just the the floor was just covered with this like spongy green mold and As soon as that happened, we just knew we had to get out of there. So we Did what we could with the bedroom that we felt safe for And just went to live in a hotel for a couple of days You know, it's it's funny because a couple of weeks ago. I was thinking about how We have too much stuff and how we need to get rid of a lot of our personal belongings and Now the mold sort of taken care of that for me but It's weird because I don't have any decision in the matter I don't get to choose what gets moldy, but I Know who's to say I would have ever gotten rid of the stuff I need to get rid of without it I think something that Won't really be captured on video that much is the smell of how this place is after downtown It's not quite mud It's not quite like a rust or shit, but it feels like If mud had like a metallic smell to it You know, it's like water Dirty water that has flowed through the city and picked up every piece of trash and Just it's it smells awful and the mud just gets everywhere too I can't walk anywhere without getting it in my apartment There's dozens of people outside and it's kind of a it's a neat blend of people I think most of the people outside are people working people who are Volunteers people who are trying to rebuild the city But there's also just a big chunk of people who are just biking around and going for runs and going jogging and It's it's weird to me It's just like they're trying to treat the city like it was like the city's not like that anymore If you're gonna jog somewhere don't come downtown For your own health too, it's like who knows what you're breathing in like there's so much So much dust in the air. That's just so bad for you I'm not walking outside without a mask anymore at this point. I'm not I'm not doing it I think breathing this stuff in is not being good for me. I think it's been I've had headaches I've had just fatigue and I don't know if I'm just freaking myself out about it, but I felt just like sick in general a little bit And I don't know if that's from living here or Just from having to move so much recently or being around the mold so much But yeah, I see a lot of people just working outside with no protective stuff on and I'm just like I Worried for them. I feel like there's gonna be some Illnesses popping up in the next couple of years that People aren't anticipating. Okay. My name is Mick. I'm Ick like Mick Jagger and I Live in Northfield, but this group that I'm with sent food and donations up all the way from Tennessee and It's a church of Christ. We do care about people and I've had some good and some sad experiences here And one of them is a story of a lady whose birthday is one month from mine. She's 66 years old She lost her car. So she went to rent a car. She rented a car came back in her apartment was condemned and she's terrified, but she's sleeping in a rented car and She's terrified to be on the streets alone And it just breaks my heart and all she took was just a couple of little things that would help her through that night And so and then we have other people that come and take a whole lot when you were pretty sure They don't need at all, but we're here to help people. So that's what we're doing had young people here that are homeless that just Ready to give up and then there's others that say I've been through a lot and I'm gonna go through a lot But I'm gonna make it they have that determination and that's great. And so I guess that's my story We have food boxes. We have personal care boxes. Although they're they're going away quickly Bleach we have laundry detergent, which has been going very well. We have a lot of bottled water Probably another hundred cases a bottled water, which people have been coming to get which really makes me feel good Because it's got to be scary drinking this water after a flood One lady came down and said she turns on her tap water It's all brown and she doesn't want to drink it and I said that's why we have this bottled water take as much as you'd like and so I wouldn't want to do my laundry in that water but With this laundry detergent they feel a little bit safer because you can pre-soak it and then you can wash it and It works good. So Like some of them I come back said thank you and that worked really great and gotten more and which is good Just you know, there's the street is lying not today, but like Monday through Saturday They were down here with cooking and giving people food on their money It didn't cost us anything Al's french fries is set up up by the fire department They're giving away fries and hot dogs and hamburgers and all that So please when you're in Burlington visit Al's french fries and help them out because they help people down here Places like that all through this place. There's volunteers that work so hard They'll fill up trucks of this bottled water in these food boxes and they're heavy and they just don't even break a sweat They just do it and they're amazing one of them I'd like to mention her name is Josie and she is just incredible She kind of helps keep everybody in line here and tell them what we're gonna do But she doesn't just stand there and do it. She talks to them and she also Lugs the heaviest things you can lug around here. She's an amazing young lady and there's so many people like that and it's just Just so nice. I mean it's just nice and it makes you feel good to be able to help people That probably sounds cliche, but it's the truth Yes, but this is my eighth day so yep, and I try to get here around nine and leave between four and five and I've only got a little Miata so I can't carry a lot of stuff for people But I have brought people some things and and all that in it and again There's just so many sad stories what people have lost and you know collections. They've had for 50 years things like that You know you finally get ahead a little bit so you buy yourself a Ethan Allen table at five or eight hundred dollars, and then it's gone as you have to throw it away those feelings of Despair, but yet they'll come down and volunteer and sort clothes like they're doing here. They'll come down and they'll Just help other people. It's just amazing. So, you know, there's a story in every person here Was it really clear where the waterline was when you guys came back There's a beautiful mirrors in there like While we've got the artistic I Know Yeah Yeah