After a week or so of very hard work, we decided trying to clean everything up and restore the house was a futile attempt. Everything we really wanted to save/couldn't afford to replace immediately was cleaned up, boxed, and stored at my brother's house. After a couple weeks of cleaning and boxing, the house was empty, dirty, and full of stuff that used to be valued possessions now covered in mud, scattered throughout the house, all over the floor. It bothered me to see the house I grew up in being abandoned. The yard was a huge mess with mud, sand, and trash that had washed in everywhere.
We called a guy we knew and he came with his dozer and here's the end result:
I thought catchin it on video would be something to have (afterall, how many people get to plan to watch their childhood home be destroyed? haha) I quickly grabbed a camera (the only one I could find right off) and sat it on the hood of the truck. I wasn't sure the limit on recording (it was a camera I hadn't used a lot before) so I had to keep checking to see if the card was full/cam was still recording/etc. The video is kinda shaky and the guys who were working were continually walking in front of the cam or standing in front of the cam -- no big deal, though.
