Well we made it through our first day. Boy am I getting old! The first house we went to today wasn't too bad. The owner Eric was there. In his neighborhood which is on the same side of the levee as the French Quarter had only about 5 or 6 feet of water. His house is up about three feet off the ground so the water damage was only to about our knees. The thing is we still needed to gut the house because everything was still in it and there was so much mold. We were done there about 2pm. Eric was a retired gentlemen who suffers from cancer, diabetes and high blood pressure. He is out at Austin, TX where the city has put him up for 18 months at no charge. He came back to Louisiana since he knew that we were coming to work on his house.
Then we came back to headquarters and got our next assignment. This house was in Chalmette just east of the 9th ward where all the houses were under water. It was a two story duplex and the water had gone about 3 or 4 feet into the second level. The drywall was still wet. One side of the duplex has been started and I worked on that side, however the other side of the duplex had not been started. When they moved the fridge there was still water in it. What a foul smell. We were only at the duplex about 2 1/2 hours but made a lot of progress. We will be headed back that way tomorrow.
I have to tell you again, you would not believe the devastation. It’s like a war zone. There are no words to explain what we have seen. We need to pray for these people. In these neighborhoods we see maybe 5 or 10 FEMA trailers in a neighborhood of 100+. How depressing it must be. My heart goes out to the people down here. The debris along the streets makes it surreal. As we gut out these houses everything gets piled along the street waiting for FEMA to come and clean it up
I will write again tomorrow.
God Bless!
Barbara
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