Message from brotherhrolf....asking for prayers!

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Thank you ATe. You hit the nail on the head. We have dropped off the map as no longer newsworthy. To make matters worse, I read in the paper that the tornado that hit Lakeview yesterday morning tore off the rooves of quite a few of the flooded houses. These homes will now have to come down instead of being rebuilt.

Zooey is right too. The insurance companies are dragging their feet. One person I have talked to got $83 for the storm damage. Another got a preliminary check for $2,000 and was told weeks later that they owed the insurance company $250 because the estimate was too low. Still others are finding that their initial settlement will not cover the cost of repairs because of the rise in the cost of materials from the estimate five months ago to today.

Meanwhile, we have had an exceptionally warm winter and the Gulf did not cool down. The levees are not repaired much less strenghtened and hurricane season is rapidly approaching.
 
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brotherhrolf:
Thank you ATe. You hit the nail on the head. We have dropped off the map as no longer newsworthy. To make matters worse, I read in the paper that the tornado that hit Lakeview yesterday morning tore off the rooves of quite a few of the flooded houses. These homes will now have to come down instead of being rebuilt.

Zooey is right too. The insurance companies are dragging their feet. One person I have talked to got $83 for the storm damage. Another got a preliminary check for $2,000 and was told weeks later that they owed the insurance company $250 because the estimate was too low. Still others are finding that their initial settlement will not cover the cost of repairs because of the rise in the cost of materials from the estimate five months ago to today.

Meanwhile, we have had an exceptionally warm winter and the Gulf did not cool down. The levees are not repaired much less strenghtened and hurricane season is rapidly approaching.
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I’m just surprised at the low payouts. Were most of these houses insured at the proper evaluations?
If I got $83 dollars for repairs to my house, I’d tear it down myself, sell the land, and don’t come back. Is this happening?
It seems to be. As time moves forward, the people who are evacuated already started new lives and are leaving NO behind to die!
Just too sad for words!
 
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ATeNumquam:
From the other side of the world I send my prayers and sorrow. I thought that, because I’m not hearing news about NO and the other areas affected by Katrina and Rita any more, that it must it be because everything had been cleaned up!!
Even I have a good idea of the cultural significance of New Orleans - how much greater the sense of loss to those who call the city home.
The devastation must be unimaginable until you see it. I feel so deeply for Brotherhrolf, Quicumque Vult, and those thousands/millions who are trying to live there or who have been uprooted from their beloved city.
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Thank you so much, for that kind post. I thank everyone for the prayers and concern.

I just came Home from work. I spent the day working in Braithwaite Below New orleans, I took the “Old” route Home, through Chalmette. Arabi and then the Lower 9th. It was nice to see concern. expressed on this board. Y’all made my day!

I even had Popeyes! The one on St. Charles is open Finally!!
Chicken not to spicy like it used to be. manager said they had to “tone” it down fo all the non locals in town. Used to be you could pull that skin back and the meat was red with pepper! Thats what Im talkin bout!!
 
To Qui: Hah, my friend! Try getting a good poboy up here in BR! (Actually with all the folk from the city here maybe it’s not such a bad idea. People here in BR don’t like crunchy french bread. Now I ask you - how can you have a good roast beef poboy w/o crunchy french bread?). I saw that the Parkview Bakery is open. Is Parasol’s open? (I have to tell everyone else that my family’s funerals were always held at Leitz-Eagan on Magazine St. and we always sent out to Parasol’s for supper.) What about the Come Back Inn on West Metairie? Lord they know my family name there! F’shure.

And all the food those folks from across the country left at Middendorf’s. Too bad I’m now alergic to crabs - none of them touched their stuffed crabs! Lord, what would they have done at Deany’s?
 
Ah, you guys are making me homesick. Perhaps I will search around Houston for some good po-boys as a Mardi Gras treat. I am so glad I was “forced” to vacation in New Orleans last July thanks to Hurricane Dennis (hit my planned vacation spot while I was en route).

I got to see the WWII museum and enjoy a Domilisie’s po-boy ( I think someone told me the place still stands) and eat all around in the Fat City area (an area in Metairie, next to New Orleans - I understand this area didn’t do so well).

Qui - Why don’t the visitors eat mild? Well, I wouldn’t eat that either. Perhaps Popeyes can slowly ramp up the seasoning. Baby steps. How are the onion rings? They are hard to find here.
 
OK Brother,

I’ve been thinking about this all day. I think I’ve come up with a pretty good 3 prong approach.

1- The key to this is Mardi Gras.

There will be newspeople in town covering the event. Looking for evidence of NO “recovery” and “resiliance”. Your mission is to meet them head-on. Think the “March for Life”.

You need people with signs saying NO needs help, you need people (middle class- white & black) on hand with stories of shafts from insurance companies, real human interest stuff.

You need to give news crews dvd’s of footage of the city- rich to poor. You need maps to direct them to these places.

There will also be tourists from all over in town. Can you get together a tours of the city? They will go home and spread the word. You can provide them with info to contact their state legeslators with. If you can’t do tours, can you hand out maps of places to go and veiw damage? (This places a risk of people driving around looting/destroyong hard hit and abandoned areas- and perhaps a liability if they are harmed)

There is a sick tendancy of prople to veiw disaster. (Just think of any bad car wreck youv’e ever come across.)

2- Get together a dvd of damage, and stories of current heartache. (similar if not the same you want to have for news crews) GET THEM OUT!!! You have a HUGE network of people here, we can hand deliver these to our state legislators.

The squeeky wheel gets the oil!!!

3- Contact Catholic radio apostolates with this info- like Steve Wood (he was on his radio show right before Rita hit- with info about insurance tips for people- he went through a bad hurricana in FL a few years ago- I forget which one) Aso, Johnette Benkovic is in Clearwater- her show is on 5 days a week now.
  • I don’t know what level you are involved in the system, or how high up you know people- but as far as politics and the mass media go, the higher the better. Get higher ups (if they aren’t passive) involved!!!
 
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Siena:
OK Brother,

I’ve been thinking about this all day. I think I’ve come up with a pretty good 3 prong approach.

1- The key to this is Mardi Gras.

There will be newspeople in town covering the event. Looking for evidence of NO “recovery” and “resiliance”. Your mission is to meet them head-on. Think the “March for Life”.

You need people with signs saying NO needs help, you need people (middle class- white & black) on hand with stories of shafts from insurance companies, real human interest stuff.

You need to give news crews dvd’s of footage of the city- rich to poor. You need maps to direct them to these places.

There will also be tourists from all over in town. Can you get together a tours of the city? They will go home and spread the word. You can provide them with info to contact their state legeslators with. If you can’t do tours, can you hand out maps of places to go and veiw damage? (This places a risk of people driving around looting/destroyong hard hit and abandoned areas- and perhaps a liability if they are harmed)

There is a sick tendancy of prople to veiw disaster. (Just think of any bad car wreck youv’e ever come across.)

2- Get together a dvd of damage, and stories of current heartache. (similar if not the same you want to have for news crews) GET THEM OUT!!! You have a HUGE network of people here, we can hand deliver these to our state legislators.

The squeeky wheel gets the oil!!!

3- Contact Catholic radio apostolates with this info- like Steve Wood (he was on his radio show right before Rita hit- with info about insurance tips for people- he went through a bad hurricana in FL a few years ago- I forget which one) Aso, Johnette Benkovic is in Clearwater- her show is on 5 days a week now.
  • I don’t know what level you are involved in the system, or how high up you know people- but as far as politics and the mass media go, the higher the better. Get higher ups (if they aren’t passive) involved!!!
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In case brother doesn’t see this on the Forums, I cut and pasted and sent it to him in an e-mail. Siena, you’re really a conduit of the Holy Spirit on this one! Wonderful idea! :cool:
 
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brotherhrolf:
To Qui: Hah, my friend! Try getting a good poboy up here in BR! (Actually with all the folk from the city here maybe it’s not such a bad idea. People here in BR don’t like crunchy french bread. Now I ask you - how can you have a good roast beef poboy w/o crunchy french bread?). I saw that the Parkview Bakery is open. Is Parasol’s open? (I have to tell everyone else that my family’s funerals were always held at Leitz-Eagan on Magazine St. and we always sent out to Parasol’s for supper.) What about the Come Back Inn on West Metairie? Lord they know my family name there! F’shure.

And all the food those folks from across the country left at Middendorf’s. Too bad I’m now alergic to crabs - none of them touched their stuffed crabs! Lord, what would they have done at Deany’s?
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I guess Deaney’s is gone. Love those crab boiled potatoes and those onion rings. By the time the rest of the wonderful seafood came, I was always full. I hope they come back, but perhaps they are too despirited to do so. I’ll be down in May for grandson’s graduation but I am not sure I am ready for what I may see.

We lived on the West Bank (Walnut Bend) many years ago. Left oldest daughter there, she married the kid down the street and is still there. Golly, I love that city. May God be with you.
 
Mary, Deaney’s was on the Jefferson Parish side of the 17th St. canal. I had heard that they reopened. Certainly Middendorf’s was doing a booming business when we ate there last Saturday.
 
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brotherhrolf:
Mary, Deaney’s was on the Jefferson Parish side of the 17th St. canal. I had heard that they reopened. Certainly Middendorf’s was doing a booming business when we ate there last Saturday.
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Parasols is up and running!
 
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brotherhrolf:
Oh, for a good roast beef poboy from Parasol’s!
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Yeah ya right! On leidenheimers french bread. Good and crunchy!
Brother we are absolutely going to have to convert the BR people.
I mean come on, If french bread isnt crunchy. It isnt French bread!
 
I have been trying! Boy have I been trying! Maybe with the influx of evacuees I may have some success. I had some hope two years ago when an Italian from the city opened New Orleans’ Poboys here. WRONG! Soft french bread. I asked him about it. He said the people in BR weren’t ready and that the market wouldn’t support it. We had one restaurant back in the 80s that did. They lasted 6 months only but the poboys were good.
 
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brotherhrolf:
I have been trying! Boy have I been trying! Maybe with the influx of evacuees I may have some success. I had some hope two years ago when an Italian from the city opened New Orleans’ Poboys here. WRONG! Soft french bread. I asked him about it. He said the people in BR weren’t ready and that the market wouldn’t support it. We had one restaurant back in the 80s that did. They lasted 6 months only but the poboys were good.
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Boy, I never realized that the quality of the French bread made a difference!
Why can’t these places feature both types (crunch & soft…sounds like the cookie thread a few pages back!) :confused: :eek:
Maybe have their stock 80% soft and 20% crunchy,
 
I guess I need to explain something. Roast beef poboys have thin slices of roast beef, piled high, with lots of garlicy gravy, topped with shredded lettuce, tomatoes,pickles and mayo. Soft french bread just doesn’t hold up to the gravy and you get a really messy sandwhich. Crunchy french bread does hold up and provides a great texture for the gravy to play against. This goes for all poboys, ham, shrimp, oyster, meatball, catfish. I am now making myself hungry.
 
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Edwin1961:
Boy, I never realized that the quality of the French bread made a difference!
Why can’t these places feature both types (crunch & soft…sounds like the cookie thread a few pages back!) :confused: :eek:
Maybe have their stock 80% soft and 20% crunchy,
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Its not just the French bread. Food here in south Louisiana is like A religion! I kid you not! If A joint (or as my Daddy would say “Jernt”) stocked 80% soft french bread, and 20% crunchy. That place would close down in A weeks time.

Is soft french bread, what people in less culinary enlightened climes.Call “Hoagies”?
 
Qui, I expect so. Can’t have a proper poboy without crunchy french bread. Or that quintessential afternoon snack, a cup of coffee with chickory and slices of buttered french bread to dunk in the coffee! Or my Mama would slice plantains and cook them down with sugar and cinammon. That’s the kind of snack I came home to. And, yes, kids start drinking coffee very early in NO.
 
QUICUMQUE VULT:
Is soft french bread, what people in less culinary enlightened climes.Call “Hoagies”?
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I believe so.
I like my sandwiches with a ‘crunch’ to them!
It let’s you know you’re eating something than just gumming it.
 
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brotherhrolf:
Qui, I expect so. Can’t have a proper poboy without crunchy french bread. Or that quintessential afternoon snack, a cup of coffee with chickory and slices of buttered french bread to dunk in the coffee! Or my Mama would slice plantains and cook them down with sugar and cinammon. That’s the kind of snack I came home to. And, yes, kids start drinking coffee very early in NO.
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LOL,
Yeah ya right! I think I started drinking coffee,at about 8-9 My nephew is 7 and he has been on coffee for a year already. Glad to see some things stay the same. Fried plantains! ya killin me Brother! Ya killin me! LOL . My memaw used to cook that for us kids, That and Pain perdue. and of course nothing but crunchy French bread, to make that with. I cut down my plantain trees after katrina ravaged them. Winter has been so mild, they are already 7-8 feet tall. I hope they bloom this year so I can make my own fried plantains.
 
Qui, yeah you right, my mamma used to make pain perdue as a snack after school too. For all of you who don’t know what it is, it is a NO adaptation of French Toast. In English it is called Lost Bread - French Toast made with French Bread but with the addition of cinnamon.

OK. I just got copies of the photos taken during my trip to NO. This photo was taken in Chalmette/Meraux, southeast of the Ninth Ward. As you can see this is a propsperous upper middle class/wealthy neighborhood. Note the concrete slab. Where is the house? I’ll show you in the next picture.

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Can anyone tell me how to increase size with Photobucket? You can’t see anything clearly in that small a picture.
 
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