Monday, February 25, 2008
Before the Blog
Here's a case of UU ingenuity for you. I'm minding my own business this afternoon and Judy Ream calls me to find out how to do a blog. Well, I didn't know either, but now three or four passwords later, here we are bloggers! The thing is we figured it out for ourselves. The Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville NC Katrina Crowd 1 group leaves for New Orleans this coming Saturday and Katrina Crowd 2 leaves March 22. You'll be hearing from us both soon! So check out the Katrina Crowd blogs again near the next full moon.
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We've spent our first day at work in New Orleans. Some of us worked outdoors in a park, removing invasive species of bushes and trees. It was a gorgeous, sunny, cool day! Others worked in a home that was flooded badly but is now nearing condition for occupancy by the owners, who managed to flee to Baton Rouge the day before Katrina struck. We finished painting of five rooms, and tomorrow will start minor repairs on the siding then painting the exterior during rest of the week. Some of us will also be working at an animal shelter, while others will hang interior doors and do other work at another home that was not flooded but suffered serious damage from a large tree that blew over onto the roof.
We are physically tired but in great spirits! New Orleans remains a huge blemish on our country's capacity to respond to human devastation, but we are encouraged by signs of re-building, recovery and the wonder of spring in the midst of almost three year-old wreckage.
We are here with almost fifty other UU's from across the country.
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