New Orleans -- Tears streamed down Hannah Huchton's face as the Brentwood teen listened to Patrina Peters recount the time she spent trapped on the roof of a floating house during Hurricane Katrina, and how the deadly 2005 storm destroyed all her worldly possessions.
The tears were of sorrow for Peters' loss and of joy at putting the finishing touches on her new home in New Orleans' devastated Ninth Ward. Huchton and 33 other students from two Brentwood high schools helped build the homes and touched lives during a four-day trip that ends today.
"I really didn't think it was going to be this much of an emotional roller-coaster," said the 17-year-old Huchton, wiping away tears on Friday, as she stood in the freshly painted entrance to Peters' 1,000-square-foot, three-bedroom home.
"If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to come back," said Peters, 45, who has been without a permanent home since Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. "This shows we're not forgotten. There was a point in time when I felt like we were a forgotten city."
Bush's world:
(Stolen from Karen McL at Peripetia.)
2 comments:
great story, great picture.
i can't read it all ellroon, it's just too much for my tiny brain.
and a pic of my honey sheryl. she loves me, she just doesn't know it, yet.
laughing like crazy over the the rummy gif. it's laugh, cry, or die in bush's world.
I understand not being able to read it all. The crimes of this administration are so great it is just one howl of horror after another.
Sheryl shoulda punched Karl in the nose. Woulda brought back childhood memories for Rove. (He was beaten up by a girl at the age of 9 or so...)
My son sent me the Rumsfeld gif. As you say, if we didn't laugh, we'd cry.
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