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September 05, 2005
Back from Covington
My boys and I, along with a friend from church, went to my parents' house again today and finished patching the roof. The boys and Chris continued the cleanup of the yard. We currently have a pile of limbs and debris along the roadside that is 4 feet high and 25 feet long. There is still a lot more to clean up. On the way out today, we drove through the neighborhood and looked up and down a lot of streets I don't usually go down just coming and going. Trees down everywhere. Trees in peoples garages, dining rooms, backyards, frontyards...entire trees through peoples' homes...like all the way to the ground through their home. And the amount of trucks and support that is on I-10 and I-12...it's like something from a movie. There is so much, it's just surreal. We can look up and see the TC-130s refueling the helicopters in midair over Covington, Mandeville. There aren't nearly as many today as their were the past several days, but there is still a great deal of activity. I've never seen this much military presence, even when I was in the military. It's just so unbelieveable...and yet, in the midst of all of this, people are still doing those everyday things in my parents' neighborhood- they are visiting, out walking, kids are riding their bikes, people are cleaning up, life is going on.
Posted by james at September 5, 2005 11:21 PM
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