Thursday, January 21, 2010


We saw some truly fantastic New Orleans weather yesterday. The skies were cloudy all morning, then darkened in the blink of an eye and proceeded to unleash torrential rains. Luckily our work projects were all indoors, so we were able to continue making progress on the homes we’re rebuilding.

In the Lower Ninth Ward, tile work continued in the kitchen and bathrooms of homes for Ms. Thomas and Ms. Lacost. Having finished inserting insulation throughout the new construction project for Conrad and Wanda Bailey, our crew began putting up sheetrock. For many of the volunteers, this was a learning experience as they had never done this type of construction work before. But with a few minutes of instruction from the site manager, our crew was good to go!

At the Mid-city projects, sheetrock was replacing damaged plaster throughout the home of Ms. Keyes, while our second crew applied joint compound to drywall.

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