Looking around our immediate neighborhood, I’d have to say our house is just about the only one ready for re-occupation. Mainly that’s because of the…
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Looking around our immediate neighborhood, I’d have to say our house is just about the only one ready for re-occupation. Mainly that’s because of the…
Entergy said they’d send someone to hook up our gas service, sometime between 7am and 7pm. That’s a nice big window. I got up before…
The electricians started work on our house today. Also, the plumber got the city inspector to come by and certify us for getting our gas…
I saw our Cuban neighbor, Jose, as we drove to our house this morning. Xy dropped me off and hurried on to a job screening…
It’s been something like twelve weeks since I’ve slept in my own bed. Until tonight. Tonight we’re camping in our own home. No electricity. No…
As I’ve done more demolition on the lower floor of our home, I’ve discovered the termite damage is a bit more extensive than I’d thought.…
Xy and I had a great breakfast at Slim Goodie’s. We were talking with an Irish grandma (with brogue!) and her daughter and baby granddaughter,…
My dear friend Mike Kaplan came by our house this afternoon to assess the electrical situation. You see, Mike is a licensed electrician, and right…
Tearing down plaster and lath walls is a lot slower-going than tearing down sheetrock. I’d like to think some of these old plaster walls could…
Ironically, Xy’s dollhouse was flooded to approximately the same level as our own, slightly larger house.
The room we’ve taken to calling the “craft room” in our house used to be a kitchen. The previous owners built a new kitchen upstairs,…
Bit of a breakthrough today. I finished cleaning the nasty, flood-damaged stuff out of our utility room. (Litter box full of month-old floodwater — yuck!)…
We’re dealing with two insurance adjusters — one for flood damage, and one for wind damage. It’s not the most convenient arrangement, but I’m not…
Just met with Roland Graybill, the adjuster for our flood claim, a lean, long-haired Southern dude. Affable. He took some measurements and some photos and…
Michael took a great picture of me standing next to all the soggy, nasty junk we pulled out of the flooded lower floor of my…
As we head north on I-55, I’m thinking of all the stuff I still need to do with my house in New Orleans: Need to…
We got back into Mid-City again today and spent the morning cleaning up my house. Michael doesn’t want to clean up his house before the…
I am exhausted — mentally, emotionally, physically. Michael and I got to our homes. We took pictures and tried to assess the damage and retrieved…
I talked to our insurance adjuster the other night, a guy named Roland Graybill. I told him that to the best of our knowledge the…