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(126 votes) Published: Aug 08, 2006 3:15 p.m. In 1 Favorites Lists Viewed 823 times
This is an egg not for the purpose of getting points for myself, but for spreading the word about the destruction of New Orleans, and what needs to be done. If you want to vote, go ahead, but this is not for my own personal gain. I also don’t want any bullshit comments about whether or not New Orleans needs to be rebuilt, those comments will be deleted. Post a thread in In My Opinion if you wish to argue that point.
Now that I’ve gotten that over with. June 18th-24th 2006 I went on a mission trip with my Youth Group to New Orleans, on behalf of the Presbyterian Church (USA). We worked on two houses during out time there, this is the first one. It took us three days, the second one took us one. We had two sledgehammers, two wheelbarrows, two shovels, a few hammers, and a bunch of crowbars. The rest we did with our hands. There are still thousands upon thousands of homes that still need to be demolished or gutted, as we were doing, so that the owners could rebuild.
I’ll start with the surrounding area. This is a stop sign near the house, note the waterline.
This is a nearby store that’s already been gutted
An abandoned house and a bent tree
Wrecked house and a FEMA trailer
Around the block was an abandoned boat on the side of the street.
The house we worked on. The debris in front was the little that the owner had managed to clear out.
One of my advisors demonstrating the waterline. Mind you this is on the porch, already three feet off the ground.
The garage in the backyard, smashed by a tree.
The front living room. Water leaked through the ceiling…
…creating a nasty mess on the floor.
Someone’s matchbox car
Part of the front bedroom
The front kitchen
Ruined belongings in the other bedroom. Everything in the house had to be taken out to the curb.
This is why nothing was salvageable.
The fridge in the back kitchen.
Yours truly having just ripped off a door.
The front door was harder to get off.
Next, we had to put on Hazmat suits and knock down the drywall.
Me on the left modeling a Hazmat suit.
This is some of us taking a break, you can see how much fun it is wearing one of those things in very hot and humid weather
Then, once the drywall was knocked down…
…we had to pick it all up
…and take it out to the curb to be bulldozed with the rest of the stuff from the house.
The debris pile (during the end-of-project toilet-smashing contest)
The gutted house.
If any of you ever get a chance to help out, go. It’ll change your life and someone else’s as well.
Aug 08, 2006 3:29 pm - Buttsecks!?! I never knew that flood was horrible, it looked like that Rambo just farted in the kitchen and took a nasty dump in the refrigerator!
Aug 08, 2006 3:59 pm - you are a good person......i’m glad to see younger people helping out with the whole catastrophy....that&rsquo s rare with this generation. 5*’s
Aug 08, 2006 4:08 pm - eh, i live in nebraska-- it was an 18 hour road trip to get there. there’s organizations you can look into that you can join and help down there too. churches are big, esp the presbyterians (whee!) and lutherans. they were the most involved denominations down there
Aug 08, 2006 4:26 pm - fuckin’ chuck norris...lol...I went on a missions trip with my church back in january....I got quite a few pics on a disc somewhere.....i plan on making an egg with the pics as soon as i can find it....ne wayz, cool egg....5*
Aug 08, 2006 4:27 pm - good for you, i was just down there as well about a month ago. Though we did a vacation bible school for some of the kids that lived in a fema trailer park. we did go down to the lower 9th ward where most of the destruction was. God bless you for going. 5*s
Aug 08, 2006 7:16 pm - wow thats an incredible amount of damage
i wish i could go volunteer...
i think im gonna try
that was really great of you to do that
5* by the way
Aug 08, 2006 8:07 pm - drifterdude, i’m sorry for what happened to you. and i’m sorry you hate all the people in new orleans who are in the EXACT SAME SITUATION AS YOU. i’ll have you know that my sister has been to biloxi on mission trips three times in the past year. it’s not being ignored. and i said very clearly to add these types of comments to the In My Opinion forum, and for that, you are now on my ban list.
I don’t want any bullshit comments about whether or not New Orleans needs to be rebuilt, those comments will be deleted. Post a thread in In My Opinion if you wish to argue that point.
Aug 09, 2006 8:56 pm - It’s good to see most Christians aren’t the vocal hypocrates that get most of the attention these days. Jesus didn’t mention homosexuals, abortion, stem cells, or the commemoration of his birth even once, but incessantly talked about helping the helpless in society. What better way to "walk the talk?"
Aug 09, 2006 9:12 pm - *5 great job. Do they do anything for the people who lose there homes by fire, and their kids in them, cause the fucking landlord don’t give a shit, and don’t take care of the wiring.
Aug 10, 2006 8:30 am - That waas a great thing to do. I really wish I had the resources to do somthing like that. Unfourtunatly I am not a member of any church. I go to a Buddhist temple but it is not large enough to organize somthing like that. 5* to egg and profile.
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