Greetings from New Orleans - Monday evening 3/24 -- 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 of us 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 and are anxious to get back into their home and be near other family members. We finished painting of five rooms, and tomorrow will start minor repairs on the siding and then painting the exterior during the rest of the week. Some 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 willingness to respond to human devastation, but we are encouraged by signs of re-building, recover 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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