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25 April 2005 Coleen Perilloux Landry

First House Restored

Memphis Street in Lakeview

This house had over six feet of water in it for almost three weeks. When I first saw it, the refrigerator and all the furniture were piled against the door--yes, refrigerators float, too.
The couple who own it will move back in this week and the two workmen and their camper will move out. The two workmen did a wonderful job of restoring it. Even the garden has been replanted and new grass put down.
It is the only house that I could find within a mile radius that had any signs of being worked on. No one else around has moved back.
At least 150,000 houses in New Orleans were flooded and few residents have returned to those houses.


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Buz Kiefer02-May-2006 01:35
Hopefully the first of many to come. Going to be lonely for awhile.
Greg Harp30-Apr-2006 22:50
Excellent shot Coleen. My congratulations to the workmen and the family. I went through Fredrick in Biloxi in late 1979. I thought that was something--and in comparison that was nothing. A year later there wasn't much evidence at all that a hurricane had blown through. It's hard to imagine Katrina... Harder still to imagine our government's response...
s_barbour30-Apr-2006 15:23
How wonderful that the home could be restored, it is far too beautiful to let go.
purpod30-Apr-2006 13:46
I'm glad the tree made it too! Thank God SOMEONE will have a home to return to;
Now we just need another 1000 or so for the rest of the peeps who suffered so much!
royalld30-Apr-2006 10:37
This oasis in the desert will soon draw hopeful wanderers to its fertile ground.
laine8230-Apr-2006 06:08
Here's hoping the others will be inspired by this & return.