Friday, October 07, 2005
Team 4 Headed for home, Next steps
Talked with Troy at 11:30 and they were on the road. They'll be staying in Nashville tonight and returning tomorrow afternoon.
As this trip ends, it's time to start planning our renewed effort, both personally and collectively for the gulf coast area. There are now several weeks till we expect to have a team going again. Please consider the following:
As this trip ends, it's time to start planning our renewed effort, both personally and collectively for the gulf coast area. There are now several weeks till we expect to have a team going again. Please consider the following:
- Tammany Oaks has recommitted this week to organizing cleanup efforts for the foreseeable future in the entire Lake Pontchartrain and surrounding area.
- Residents were just allowed into most parts of New Orleans Wednesday to examine their homes and businesses. People are just now finding how much work there is to do.
- 56,000 (FEMA estimate) are still in shelters
- FEMA opened its first trailer park near Baton Rouge yesterday which should hold 2,000, but only an aggressive few have found their way there.
- While we have ripped out a lot of moldering materials, walls, insulation, flooring, carpeting, and furniture must still be replaced in the houses that have been cleaned out.
- Insurance companies and FEMA are not prepared to pay out replacement costs to homeowners except in what appears to be rare cases until the court cases are settled.
- People like one we discussed last week, will continue to be displaced from their environment by rising rent and redistribution of the population into lesser damaged or undamaged areas.
# posted by John McGuire @ 11:31 PM 
