Harry Krause wrote:
Don White wrote:

Just watching CNN. The mayor was addressing reporters and said he
wants 200K people to move back and re-populate the city. (with
possible visit from Rita). The federal people say power is still
sporadic and the water is undrinkable.
Are these guys talking to each other?


Apparently not. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to go back to a city
without electricity, potable water, and a working emergency system, but
I have choices, and perhaps many New Orleans folks do not.

We got a nice phone call from the two Mississippi union families living
in our rental house in NE Florida. Both of the guys got work from the
union business agent and worked a full week last week, and the local
business agent is making sure deductions are taken from their pay for
their pension and welfare payments to their local union. That means
their family health care stays intact. Their kids are in the local
schools. I think they're driving back to their home areas this weekend
with a U-haul to see what can be salvaged. According to their wives,
there are at least a dozen families they know from the Gulfport-Biloxi
area who are at least temporarily in NE Florida.

Oh...a benefit to me...the inside of my rental needed painting. Well,
it's going to get painted now, and I suspect any other work that it
needs will be done.


There's a 'good news' story you won't hear from JohnH. A real win win
situation.