[TheForge] Katrina

[Chuck Robinson]

I'm reminded of the story of 3 blind men trying to describe an elephant by 
each feeling a small, different part of it's body.
About 90% of what was reported about Katrina by the national media was 
erroneous and shoddy reporting.
Very little has been done by the government or national aid organizations to 
restore the Mississippi Coast. The National media has almost totally ignored 
us.
The national reporters prefer to visit New Orleans where they can find nice 
hotel rooms and eat good meals in the parts of the city that didn't flood, 
rather than sleep in a tent and eat MRE,s. on the coast.
There is about 70 miles of coast line that is completely devastated.
The storm surge went as far as 30 miles inland and the wind and water damage 
was devastating hundreds of miles inland.
The damage was several orders of magnitude worse than is being reported.
There are still folks who are  living in tents down here because FEMA still 
hasn't supplied them with trailers.
The  people that made a major difference after the storm were church groups 
and individuals many of them local people who volunteered to help.
If we waited for the government and or National organizations we would still 
be waiting like New Orleans is.
About 80,000 homes were completely destroyed and over 300,000 were severely 
damaged.
Many of the gulf coast people believe that the rest of the U S feels like 
Walt does, and has all ready written them off.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Mullett" <wmullett at bright.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 9:02 AM
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> About time....
>
> This is not a personal rights issue.  Living in high  risk areas doesn't
> just affect the person living there.  It also puts the rescuer's lives at
> risk and it costs all of the rest of us.
>
> It's like smoking.  When you smoke around another person, you risk their
> life and your smoking costs all of us money.
>
> Walt
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Demon Buddha
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 9:19 AM
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>
> Ick.
>
> So tell me, how do folks feel about the third party decision to not allow
> some folks to rebuild?
>
> Chuck Robinson wrote:
>> My Yurt held up pretty well. The 5 1/2" drill stem uprights, laced
>> with 5/8" steel cable, limits the damage from falling trees.
>> I had to repair a broken rafter but other than roof repair and
>> re-shingling the only other damage was water damage to tooling and
>> electrical equipment My machine shop needed roof repair and doors and
>> my house needed new shingles and roof repair. Lost 20 trees. One of
>> them fell on my tractor/fork lift, but I fared a  better than other
>> folks Daryl Reeves had 12' of water in his shop in N.O.
>> Randy Ostendorf in Abita Springs, Dave Mudge near Bogalusa and Gary
>> Ford in Pascagoula all had much more serious damage.
>> Buddy Leonard in Covington and Johnny Argus in Slidell also had shop
>> damage.
>> Some of my friends closer to the Coast lost everything but their cars
>> and the clothes they were wearing when they evacuated.
>> Chuck
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Demon Buddha" <osan at netlabs.net>
>> To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 3:44 PM
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>>
>>> Speaking of which, how are you faring?  IIRC your shop wan't
>>> completely destroyed... or am I confusing you with someone else?
>>>
>>> Chuck Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Down here on the Gulf Coast we have been pretty busy recovering from
>>>> Katrina damage.
>>>> The only smithing I have done lately, is to build new ornamental
>>>> iron support columns for my neighbors front porch.
>>>> Chuck
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "GHS" <GHS at execpc.com>
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>>>> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 6:40 PM
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