[CPEO-BIF] New Orleans household debris

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The inner life of a city gets dragged to the curb

By Kris Axtman
Christian Science Monitor
November 14, 2005

NEW ORLEANS - Mary Kelly-Swafford never knew mold could come in so many 
colors until she and her husband, Bert, began to gut their mid-city home.

"Black, white, red, yellow, blue, green, purple," she ticks off from 
inside the structure's skeletal remains, stripped bare of furniture, 
appliances, electronics, clothes, mementos, and even sheetrock - all of 
which is piled 10-feet high on the front curb.

"Imagine everything you own sitting in a Port-O-Let for three weeks," 
adds Mr. Swafford. "That's what it was like in here, nice and soggy and 
smelly."

That's also what it's like out there - on every curb and around every 
corner in New Orleans. The rotting piles of debris grow daily as more 
and more people return to the storm-ravaged city and begin to clean out 
their homes and businesses.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1114/p01s01-ussc.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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