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August 13, 2006
Wannabe rescue hero lapped by 94-year-old woman
After my long vaguely self-congratulatory post about the physically exhausting gutting work I did yesterday, Da Po Blog brings us this Houston Chron article about a 94-year-old woman who gutted her house herself. Consider me duly humbled.
We need more bad grass in this town.
And we need the world to know that 60% of the homes in this city still have no electricity, even as people move back into them. Or that many homes are only occupied on the second story, because the first floor is still gutted.
But we're like bad grass. We aren't going away.
Posted by ray at August 13, 2006 9:30 AM | Permalink
Categories: [katrina | new orleans ]
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Yeah, I thought the "bad grass" post and the article it linked to were really wonderful. There's no shortage of incredible feats of the human spirit in New Orleans. That's for sure. *sigh*
Posted by: Sophmom at August 13, 2006 2:12 PM
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