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[...] 11, 2009 by Bill As noted in an earlier post, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina to New Orleans was unbelievable, but just as [...]

By: missionlog

missionlog — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:07:09 +0000

Thanks for your post – truly insightful, and you’re right – 3 years later and so little accomplished. I was there just before Christmas to visit a friend we helped in the Lower 9th throughout 2006. His home is an island among empty lots and still crumbling homes. I remember the house right across the street from him – still standing, but it hasn’t been touched in two years. We helped gut a home out in Lakeview in the fall of 2006 – it’s since been levelled by the city. Three of the homes we helped clean out after Katrina have all been bulldozed by the city because the owners couldn’t afford to renovate them. Cleaning up in Texas after Ike last fall I was struck by the eerie similarities to post-Katrina New Orleans in San Leon, Texas (Galveston County mainland) – empty streets, abandoned neighborhoods, and the homeless finding shelter in houses still full of debris and toxic black mold.

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