Today we went to the St. Roch ward and took photographs. The idea around the group was if they planted trees it would help the community feel like they were not forgotten. I met a couple of the residents working on St. Roch cleaning up the main area. One of the residents was Beverly. She has been a resident for 24 years. When the flooding she had water to her floor boards which wasn't to bad but than it took so long to receded that all of her furniture was ruined from the bottom up. Another resident that I met was Janie, who lives in New Orleans East and she had water to her roof line. She received barely enough to even start working on her home. Many of the residents cant even get back into their home let alone start to work on them. Some have even come home to find that the land that they owned has been bought by a company and they have to repurchase the land and rebuild with a new mortgage that they didn't have before. One of the most shocking stories I heard was that residents that hadnt had a drop of water or any wind damage to their homes recieved the max amount that Road Home could give them which was 150,000. Where as the residents that had water to the roof get maybe 15,000. Very stupid.
After we left St. we headed over to the Lower 9th Ward. This area is completly cleared out. Many of the lots are just concrete steps leading up to nothing. The land behind is green and waiting for someone to come and rebuild but, of course many cant.
We had the afternoon free and did some shopping and had dinner in the French quarter. Tomorrow we had home.
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