On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:20:55 GMT, Frank Church
wrote:

wrote in news:vlb8u15vr9tci1d9r1ifu9arj7q4ucr6pa@
4ax.com:

Don't know if you know anyone from Frederick, WS or anyone associated
with "The Butterknife Group," but if you do, give 'em a big ol' "thank
you!" Some of yer fellow cheeseheads are down here rebuilding houses,
and managed to get one done and the folks back home in 17 days - good on
'em.

...got my very own look at some of the mess Katrina left. I was still north
of Biloxi by a least 25 miles when I began to see roofing torn off, twisted
into heaps, buildings were sporting big tarps where roofs used to be and
just a general overall mess. Arriving at the dealer in Biloxi, I could see
where the wind/water had piled up debris against fences and anything that
would stand up to the storm. Dealer said his RV lot had about 6 feet of
water covering it. I forgot to ask him how they saved the RV's from getting
drowned. They did a good job of cleaning up the mess however, no evidence
left on his property.

Frank Sr.

If they moved them even a few blocks, that might have done it. People
don't realize, even those who have lived here all their lives, just how
much variation there is in elevation. For example, over in Hancock
county (Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis, Waveland, etc.), the water was as
high as 32 feet at the shoreline, but there are a fair number of houses
within 1-2 miles that got no water. If you walk out of my mother's
front door, you can see in one direction a house that had water _in the
attic_, in another direction a house where two people drowned _in the
attic_, and in another, one that didn't even have wet floors.

OTOH, the RVs you saw might have been post-Katrina inventory. From what
I've heard, vehicle manufacturers were VERY swift in rounding up
storm-damaged dealer inventories - GM sent down mobile crushers and
crushed flooded cars right at the dealership. But I also heard they
made a real effort to get replacements here equally quickly.

What's really strange for some to understand is the number of boats
damaged and destroyed by the storm, but when you realize that it put
God-knows-how-many-ton casino barges on or north of US90, it shows that
the ability to float ain't necessarily a defense...

TC,
R