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Karen Jordan, an Americorp volunteer of two years, inspects the building blueprints for accuracy, as the walls go up in record speed on Lillian's new house with the intense labor force driving the ressurection of a a domicile from the cold muddy slab of concrete that had been a scene of devestation for a week. Volunteers managed to have the walls of the house up and joisted in stable positions as they were fastened together to check for squareness and were later fastened to the foundation. All the volunteers quickly became excited and thoroughly engaged in the reconstruction process as they marvelled how quickly the house was coming together in a matter of hours. The possibility the house would be ready in just thirty days was becoming more of a reality with each hammer blow than it had seemed to some just a few hours early to the chilled speech attendees.