GIRLS & flood katrina

Yes, that's right, Persevere Disaster Relief's operational team is made of of one guy and three girls. It's funny to see people's reactions to that. They come home to see what work is being done and instead of walking in to find a team of burly men they find us...three 5'3" women who probably look like we're still in high school - speaking for myself at least. Yesterday and today we worked on a gutting job removing 2 massive built-in cabinets and the wood paneling and ceiling tiles in 3 rooms. When the homeowner's son came over yesterday he asked Marianne, Jen and me where the rest of the team was. We said he was looking at it. He said, "Really? No guys?" His look was almost of disbelief. After talking to us and looking around his mom's house he complimented that we were doing very good work. It's nice to prove people wrong sometimes.

We continued talking and it turns out the son has a house right on the beach in Waveland. Structurally it survived and they're rebuilding. But they didn't get any hurricane insurance, of course because the damage was from the water....Flood Katrina, right?

MISSISSIPPI MOMENTS OF THE WEEK:
finding a 4" grasshopper in my shirt hanging outside to dry

a church with a sign out front which reads "YOU THINK IT'S HOT HERE?"

a man in the supermarket who upon reading Marianne's Boston College shirt, in a very thick southern accent and smile said "Boston? Bunch of liberals up there"

spray painted on the back of an electrical van: "CAUTION, DRIVER JUST DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT ANYMORE"