Last night in New Orleans. Heading down to the French Quarter for coffee and beignets.
Suzi, I worked mostly in Gentilly but we had three work sites. We all finished up today in St. Bernards Parish.
The house I spent most of the week at was under 9 ft of water which took almost a month to recede. Most people have the idea that everything is back to normal but that will take years.
I’ve kept a journal and plan to blog this when I get back.
We travel tomorrow. I’ll check in on Sunday.
Mmmm...coffee and beignets...
Safe travels tomorrow!
And the water in the City wasn't like the MS Gulf Coast where the water came up, stayed just a bit, then receded. Of course, there, it receded and tended to take a lot of stuff with it. They've had to dredge the Sound, off the Coast ever since the storm. I was down there in June after the storm, and there were still large tree roots sticking up out of the water from big old trees that had withstood several large storms over the last 100 years, and were uprooted and carried out by the receding water. Katrina was too much for them.
If you had some extra bucks, and didn't mind doing the work yourself, you could turn a tidy profit by buying up some of those homes in the Lakeview area of New Orleans and either rehabbing, or tearing down to build new. My nephew was thinking of that, but he couldn't come up with the $40K it was going to cost him to purchase what had been a $400K home, and then bear all the cost of the improvements.
Travel safe!
I look forward to reading your blog when you get back!