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This picture is the view that you would see if you're walking straight down the stairs from the front angle. Can see straight ahead we have the bathrooms straight ahead and to the left, a storage closet to the right, the fire alarm panel, and straight ahead the thrift stores door. Left of these are three or four doors that were housing the Montpelier food pantry. Thing has to come out, everything has to be do you watered, and as you can see in this picture, it's dark because there are no lights, all of the electrical was destroyed, so nothing could be turned on, and some of this stuff would have been still Energized. You look further into the bathroom straight ahead you can see the ceiling destruction that was also apparent, but as you can see water is high enough so that everything is floating down here They had done work on this in 2011 And 2017 to recover from two floods, but this, this is extensive, and I'm not sure if we'll ever be able to recover. As I said in the other picture, it took 4 days to dewater the basement, and then they had to dry it all out and make sure it was safe, then 150 people descended into the basement with flashlights and other assistive devices to be able to clear the garbage and everything else that needed to get removed.

I don't mind saying that I am a little sad about this! Trinity is a home, a home for a guy that loves to help people, and I've always been a service oriented individual. Always willing to give of myself, and do for others when necessary, helping those that are in need, but always keeping a firm hand on people that may try to take advantage Of the situation when necessary. I love helping people, and seeing this destruction really opens my eyes to the power of water, to the power of what can happen when you least expect it, it's a full reset here, and I'm not even sure to what level this building will return, or what we'll be able to do, but it's basically been decided that nothing will be residing down here at all.

Not sure what else will happen, right now we don't even know what will happen with the building, and the only thing they're doing now is putting electrical plumbing and heating in here, along with the fire alarm panel, because they need that for occupancy sake.