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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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
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.
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!
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.
Thanks for taking part in the human race, both in helping it and recording its history.
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!
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.
CLF
Loc: Raleigh, NC
AzPicLady wrote:
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!
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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
It's people like you who make this a better world.
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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