Neighborhood Meeting

Hello and welcome home to everyone. I still do not have internet access but, I managed to steal some on-line time on the Northshore.

I went to a neighborhood meeting last Wed. and it was pretty good. There will be another one this Wed. at the police station (MLK and OCH)at 10:00 AM. If anyone has time to go, it would be great to represent ccmuses.

take care.
Jacqui

Costume Party 10/31

Hey Y'all,

Billy and I are having a costume party for Halloween at 1234 Carondelet. Personally, I love dressing up, but you don't have to. Have not nailed the start time down yet. Hell, I don't even know what kind of costume I can rustle up. Maybe I'll just be silver girl and wear tinfoil. Hey everybody, feel free to wear tinfoil costumes.

Nik

You'll Thank Me Later

Something to add to your supply list prior to returning: mosquito netting! With all the puddles of stagnant water around, there's probably about, oh, say 100 billion of the wee beasties flying around Orleans Parish. With a greatly diminished pool of victims to prey upon.

You have been warned :)

- Rob

Power and Light

Rob here (here being Nashville for the time being.) I spoke to Aurora, who is back home and reports that power, phone and water is in service at her house (and presumably for the whole block.) Standard warnings about water quality apply. I've also heard that the Lee Circle Exxon is open.

Good luck to anyone in the first wave of returnees - be safe out there!

Brown's Hell-vet

Rob here - just heard (second-hand) from a salvage guy that almost all of the Brown's Velvet truck fleet was jacked and abandoned all over town. Many were flooded. I'm assuming this is the delivery trucks, not the big rigs.

Not many silver linings today (the 9th ward is flooding again), but maybe Suiza will shut down that ammonia-spewing hellhole once and for all.

Escape Into New Orleans

It looks like the new evacuation is going to prevent me from traveling into the city this week and I am going up to NYC the following week so I think that I am just going to FEDEX keys to Radcliffe to start work on my roof while I am away, if he can get in.

Thought people might also be interested in reading a piece I wrote about escaping into New Orleans a week ago Sunday. It has a great picture of my house and the story of the two dogs we found on Carondelet. It is at http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/19/homeagain/index_np.html . You have to watch a little ad to see the whole thing but it is pretty painless.

-Billy

Call me if you are returning

662-715-9485. Or email, billys@thejusticecenter.org.

-Billy

Returning to the neighborhood next week

When are folks planning to return?

Given the fact that we are allowed to return and that I have damage to my house that will only worsen the longer I am away, I am going to return early next week. I am going to get up on my roof with my insurance adjuster and try to get the Army Corp to put a temporary roof on my house. Is anyone else planning on coming back for any extended period next week. Radcliffe will be back on Weds. and is going to start work on various houses. It would be good if there were others on the block. Anyone?

The sooner we get back, the sooner things will change for the better. The sooner you get back and clean out your fridge, the less funky it will be.

-Billy

This is basically how we found it. 

Hello everyone,
Sean and I went into the city yesterday. It was creepy, but not irreparable. Most of us did very well considering. I posted the pictures we had time to take, we were sort of rushing…it’s pretty stinky. Our experience was very similar to Billy’s. We got there early, we were expeditious, and then we left.

I hope you can find what you are looking for here. Good luck.
Jacqui and Sean

FSRP Headquarters

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rob here - found this pic taken by the guys at InterNIC:

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baronne and clio 

the gate fell 

Spinner Bros. 

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got milk? bah. 

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