Comments | mrf_arch: One year later

mrf_arch

One year later

Aug 30, 2006 18:22

Comments 17

psongster August 31 2006, 03:22:28 UTC

I hadn't realized before that your small team was responsible for all of St. Bernard Parish, not just some part of it.

Thank you for, once again, providing an up-close-and-personal perspective on what this all means.

mrf_arch August 31 2006, 04:48:45 UTC

Not the whole parish, just the school district. There were many other applicants in the parish, most of which received at least one person, and sometimes more - parish government, the fire department, the water department, the sheriff's office...

penk August 31 2006, 03:26:02 UTC

This is a remarkable commentary and photojournal. Thank you for sharing it.

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mrf_arch August 31 2006, 04:58:01 UTC

The backstory starts with this entry and this entry. I was notified of a deployment on September 30th (Happy birthday to me!) My first post from down there was October 10th and pretty much everything in my journal is louisiana-centric until my return on January 11th

shadesong August 31 2006, 12:23:18 UTC

May I link to this? (Understand if it's no, that being a 900-person spotlight). This is powerful and moving and should be shared.

mrf_arch August 31 2006, 13:34:58 UTC

As you like. :-)

rdhdsnippet August 31 2006, 17:00:37 UTC

Thank you.

It is amazing how much it still hurts to see my home. :-/

crouchback August 31 2006, 17:40:56 UTC

Thanks for writing this.

Man, I remember the George Bush who was against increasing government. Since he got into office, he's increased the size of government (even if you don't count the expansion of the miltiary and variosu security services) and worked very hard to show that the law of dminishing returns applies in spades to government bureaucracy.

That last picture makes me angry. I realize that they probably did some of the repair on their own, but I'm willing to bet that they were able to get FEMA to respond to them. (I can't help thinking of something John Stossel once wrote about how he got money out of the government for his beach house.)