Call For Volunteers?

[transquebecniece]

BIGGER NEWS FLASH: There is beginning to be a glimmer of hope down south, thanks to all of the help and support that has been flowing in from in-country and from foreign countries. Lights are coming on, phones are starting to ring again, the airport is opening this week (much sooner than earlier estimates), etc. Two-thirds of Americans believe that New Orleans and other cities ravaged by Katrina are totally worth the effort of rebuilding and that COULDN'T BE DONE without the help of so many people, Canadians included. Good news! All that "downside stuff" will just have to take a backseat; getting people home and back on their feet is most important.

[Guest Bruce]

I'm pleased to see that this is back on topic and the juvenile antics have ceased.

 

There are alot of people in the Gulf Coast Region with bigger problems than bruised egos.

 

Great work HBG & VX and a salute to all those that are helping out that I may have missed in my kudos

 

God Speed

 

Regards

 

Bruce

[cap]

"New Orleans MUST be put back to the way it was....or almost was.....at any cost". That's a direct quote from my wife because she'll have no place to go for her planned get-together and conference for teachers from across North America next year. I do not wish to cohabitate with this lady for those two weeks should this fail to happen after all her excitement and planning. So I thank my brother and all other Canadians who are down there and helping the destitute and to rebuild the city because that beautiful city must be put back to the way it was no matter how long it takes.

[Rosco]

Army Corps of Engineers were quoted as saying that their estimation of written off homes is going to be somewhere around 100 000. Going to take an aweful long time to rebuild that kinda #'s. Not to mention the rest of the totalled buildings, casinos, hotel, resorts et al....

 

Going to be a long long time me thinks.

[67november]

images of the relief efforts courtesy of the US Army

 

http://www.army.mil/katrina/imagery.html

[transquebecniece]

"New Orleans MUST be put back to the way it was....or almost was.....at any cost". That's a direct quote from my wife because she'll have no place to go for her planned get-together and conference for teachers from across North America next year.

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Hmmm. Yer loverly better half may get her wish. One lone pub's been open on Bourbon Street a few days now and New Orleans has not ruled out Mardi Gras yet either!

[Elvis]

[Rosco]

Brilliant Elvis.....one of your best yet.

 

Spot On.

 

Take a bow.

[Elvis]

[cap]

There's a whole bunch of those 100,000 homes that could be classified as "hovels" only and were in real rough shape. I realize they were "Home Sweet Home" to many, but they wouldn't have withstood much anyway from MotherNature. Remember also, that you are in a part of the country where a furnace is not a necessary item and many homes don't have one. You'll find no R-2000 homes in most of southern Louisianna either. There's folks who have lived for generations in a trailer without anything but a fan and a baseboard heater.....and that's considered normal. Ditto for many parts of Florida. I lived in Alabama for time many years ago and there were many that had never seen a furnace in their lives and didn't need one. I mention all this only because if you take those items out of the cost of building a home in the northern climes, then the price drops greatly.

 

We might all be very surprised with how quickly life returns to some point close to normal. They're a pretty stubborn and resilient crowd down there and they're hurting right now, but I don't believe "all the votes are in yet" so I'd wait awhile before cancelling out Mardi Gras even. My wife has been told that conversations have taken place with Marriot Hotels and others and that they were told to "hang in there because the fat lady hadn't sung just yet".