Looking for Volunteers

Please contact me if you have something to contribute from your
experiences in NOLA.

I'm hoping to add other stories, thoughts, experiences, and pictures
to this blog. Being that I didn't go down to NOLA until 15 months after
the storm and floods, I don't know how to convey the actual experience
of surviving that. I do have a volunteer perspective which makes a big
difference even now.

The problem with creating an awareness is that NOLA is trying to cater to
the tourists by saying please come spend your money here. We are open
and you will have fun. We are rebuilding and are viable city again. However,
the people who aren't in downtown NOLA are stuck. These areas still look
devastated. Debris piles are on every block, houses haven't been touched
since the storm, FEMA trailers are still grouped together in parks and outside
of gutted homes. Need Gutting, Roofing, flood insurance claims, Got Mold?,
contractors signs are everywhere. Handmade street signs are nailed to
severly leaning or bent posts and poles to help identify street location.
Houses are still emblazoned with their X identification from being searched
following the flood. Go to flickr and do a search for st Bernard Parish or
9th ward. click on most recent. There is the truth of the matter.

I'm in Seattle and you are at home, school, or the library reading this
for one reason or another. Instead of doing last minute xmas shopping
I've spent the better part of this day trying to get this blog and the flickr
page up, so when everyone comes back from their holiday trips I can show
them what needs to be done in NOLA.

Can you help in some way?