A Hurricane Rebuilding Update

Dr. Shackleford of the Jawa Report went into the heart of the Gulf Coast to help with the recovery efforts and reports back. It's simply amazing to read his report and know that you could repeat his reporting of the devastation for each of the 200+ miles of coastline devastated by Wilma, Katrina, and Rita and only then you would be scratching the surface of the scale and scope of the cleanup. We're more than two months out from Katrina coming ashore, and we're still cleaning up. We haven't even gotten to rebuilding in a lot of areas.

The closer we get the more the war zone analogy becomes apt. Where we were working it was mortar and Howitzer bombardment. Three miles from the beach it is heavy ordinance. It is like the Navy decided to shell the town from some unseen WWII battleship. The once touristy town is almost no more. Traffic lights in working order already, but almost no traffic.

And the closer you get to the coast, the more complete and total the destruction became.

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