Just back from Lake Charles
Oct 30, 2020 14:02:21 #
I spent a week working in Lake Charles, LA, helping to clean up the mess from the double whammy hurricanes that hit that town and the surrounds. If you have never been to a site like this (like me), you should go. The devastation and heartache are almost unbearable. We cut up beautiful trees that had fallen. Huge, 100-year-old oaks and pines, even one enormous magnolia tree. We gutted houses and prepped them for reconstruction. It was HARD work - all day, every day. I'm still pretty exhausted!
Thousands of fallen trees
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Gutting a house is dirty work
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If one were a woodworker, he could sure find some nice pieces here.
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Chain saws were everywhere
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One of many such
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Oct 30, 2020 14:40:46 #
Kudos to you Kathy for being involved in such a helpful project - and taking the time to post some images that give us an inkling of what this devastation was like. Hats off to you! Joe
Oct 30, 2020 14:42:25 #
That's a shame. That happened to us in 2012. The roof was destroyed, and the heavy rain poured in. That is nice looking wood, though.
Oct 30, 2020 14:43:31 #
weberwest wrote:
Kudos to you Kathy for being involved in such a helpful project - and taking the time to post some images that give us an inkling of what this devastation was like. Hats off to you! Joe
Thanks. I sure wish they could get more people down there to help. There is SO MUCH to be done!
Oct 30, 2020 14:44:13 #
jerryc41 wrote:
That's a shame. That happened to us in 2012. The roof was destroyed, and the heavy rain poured in. That is nice looking wood, though.
Thanks, Jerry. I kept wishing some woodworker would come along and snap up all that beautiful stuff! There are literally tons of it that will be ground up.
Oct 30, 2020 15:11:11 #
captivecookie
Loc: Washington state
Thanks for taking part in the human race, both in helping it and recording its history.
Oct 30, 2020 15:16:41 #
Good for you, Kathy.
--Bob
--Bob
AzPicLady wrote:
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Oct 30, 2020 16:35:15 #
Oct 30, 2020 16:53:28 #
captivecookie wrote:
Thanks for taking part in the human race, both in helping it and recording its history.
Well, thank you. I never thought of it that way!
Oct 30, 2020 16:53:41 #
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Oct 30, 2020 17:43:17 #
Thanks for helping out, Kathy. I'm from Lake Charles but now live in Ragley just a few miles to the north. If you have followed my posts you know what I am still going through. Folks like you are the backbone of this great country. Thanks again.
Oct 30, 2020 18:11:08 #
AzPicLady wrote:
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Kathy, I have seen many a hurricane growing up in South Florida and I tip my hat to you for helping the friends and families of LA. We had similar help after storms down there and I still remember my Dad cooking the meat from our chest freezer and feeding the neighbors. I have done the same up here in Raliegh after Fran hit in 1996. I emptied my freezer and passed out the meat to my neighbors.
Greg
Oct 30, 2020 18:29:37 #
Oct 30, 2020 18:48:37 #
kpmac wrote:
Thanks for helping out, Kathy. I'm from Lake Charles but now live in Ragley just a few miles to the north. If you have followed my posts you know what I am still going through. Folks like you are the backbone of this great country. Thanks again.
While I was there, I wanted to find you. But I had no internet. Your damage was probably beyond the scope of our group. But I sure carried a lot of sawed wood!
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