Hurricane Relief Missions

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Foundation work at N. Rampart St., New Orleans

Ben Pawley explains how they are leveling the foundation with footers and concrete blocks

Midweek Activities

Dawn brought with it plenty of rain this morning. We did not let that get us down though and only one group really needed to change their plans. With wet scaffolding being a problem, the Benton Street group was shifted to another job in Pearl River. Their job site can be seen below.

The Spain group was scheduled to go work with the Rampart group, but 4 of them started their day at the Project Homecoming warehouse where they helped to organize supplies, joining us at lunch.

Speaking of lunch, we had a little excitement today. One local gentleman was walking down the street and graciously stopped to point out that I had missed a spot on the window I was priming. We talked for a few minutes and he mentioned that an episode of the HBO drama, Treme, was being filmed just down the street from us. So, at lunch time, several of us grabbed our brown bags and walked down the block to watch a little bit of the action. It was sort of a fun diversion.

While we were not being entertained by television crews, the Rampart Street grouped worked on raising the house some more, mixing concrete, pouring footings, scraping, priming and reglazing windows and finishing the primer on the outside of the house.

Back in Pearlington, the crew began work on a house that we had seen under construction in May. They are doing some finishing work and hopefully the homeowner will be in soon.

As a special treat, the lovely Laura, a Chalmettte local, came to fix us another one of her tasty dinners. Laura was so impressed by the work that PDA volunteers did for one of her friends, that she has come almost weekly for the last 2 years, to fix dinner for them (us). Tonight's fair was a mouth-watering Shrimp Fettucini Alfredo with Pecan Squares for desert, YUM!!! Did I happen to mention that Laura is a professionally trained chef?

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