We're seeing the pictures on the news this week during a scaled-back Mardi Gras of what a mess New Orleans still is 6-months after Katrina. This kind of work is still being done by these kinds of people...
The church is also helping Broadmoor residents by gutting or "mucking" houses for free. Volunteer teams take everything inside the homes to the curb for debris removal, and tear out dry wall and insulation, a service for which professionals are charging as much as $3,000. When the church mucks a house, it assigns one volunteer to sit and talk with the family while their home is gutted. "One of the worst days of your life is the day you throw out everything you own," says Mr. Kramer, whose own family threw out ruined baby albums, wedding photos, and family heirlooms. "It helps to have church people doing it."
