a taste of destruction

Despite everything I've seen on the news regarding the condition of New Orleans, seeing it for myself was still somewhat of a shock. More than three months after Katrina, parts of the city still seem like a deserted wasteland...Piles of debris, houses marked by waterlines, refrigerators filled with decomposing meat, the maggots, the horrible stench, the mold...To think that after thirty or forty of us spent a full day cleaning a shul that had already been worked on quite a bit, and it still remained disastrous, the task of "fixing" the rest of the city seems inconceivable...

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