Spring Break in Louisiana
I spent last week with the Drew Habitat for Humanity chapter. 20 of us piled into 2 vans and drove straight to Pearl River, Louisiana, on the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain. We spent the next 5 days working on new houses for people who lost theirs in Hurricaine Katrina and people who didn't have much of a house anyway. We spent an entire day hammering nails OUT of enough 2X4s to frame a house so we could recycle the wood and rebuild the Habitat warehouse, destroyed in the storm. We spent the longest 5 hours of my life "mucking out" a house that sustained flood damage to the roofline.
Please don't forget about the people of the greater New Orleans area and Mississippi Gulf Coast. I know I did, until I was there. During the time that I spent in the state of Louisiana, they pulled two more bodies out of houses and the lights came on for the first time in Chalmette, a suburb of New Orleans. Only a third of the pre-Katrina population has returned to the area. And they have nothing to come back to.
I'm posting a few pictures of the damage that I took. I'm no photographer, I just point and click. If you'd like more, let me know and I'll send them to you.
Please continue to support relief efforts. Yes, it has been six months, but it is not old news.
Please don't forget about the people of the greater New Orleans area and Mississippi Gulf Coast. I know I did, until I was there. During the time that I spent in the state of Louisiana, they pulled two more bodies out of houses and the lights came on for the first time in Chalmette, a suburb of New Orleans. Only a third of the pre-Katrina population has returned to the area. And they have nothing to come back to.
I'm posting a few pictures of the damage that I took. I'm no photographer, I just point and click. If you'd like more, let me know and I'll send them to you.
Please continue to support relief efforts. Yes, it has been six months, but it is not old news.