2005 - 09-02-05

# 2005 - 09-02-05

From:

North of Jewfish Creek

Dear Friend & Subscriber,

I want to thank all of you who replied to
the message on this website which was posted yesterday
(September 1, 2005).

I wish I could personally respond to each
and every email sent to me but there aren't enough
hours in the day for me to do that. Many of your
replies were very well thought out and contained excellent
suggestions.

I believe I now have, to the best of my
ability, come up with a few ideas to help people who have
been ravaged by this monster hurricane.

First, I'd like to say very emphatically...

It's Not Over!

Not by a long shot. Even if all of the water
in New Orleans somehow "magically" evaporated in the next
few hours, most of the homes would still be unfit to repair
and make livable once again. I know this because I had
a client some time ago who was in the business of mold
remediation. He was a nice, plain, soft-spoken guy who I
referred to as "The Nightmare Man". If he
would come out and
inspect your home for mold and then tell you the toxic
effects mold has on the human body, it would scare the wits
out of you. When he talks to families about their mold
problems, many of the wives pack up immediately and move to
a hotel. They tell their husbands that if they want to "sleep"
with them, they'll have to move into the hotel with them...
and... they will have to stay there until all the mold is
removed and their house is safe once again.

Mold is caused by moisture. Having mold in
your house is like living with an invisible Saddam Hussein
who is sneaking around spraying the most toxic chemicals
known to man into the place you live. People get very sick
from the effects of mold. The diseases caused by mold are
too numerous to mention. A lot of people actually die from
the toxins caused by mold. Those people (and their doctors)
never know the source of their deadly diseases.

Well, as far as moisture is concerned, I
think right now, New Orleans, Louisiana, might be considered
the "Moisture Capital of the World". What I'm trying to say
is this: Many of the people of New Orleans are never
going to be able to safely live in their homes again.

That is, of course, also true for many of
the people who lived in nearby Mississippi and Alabama and
whose lives have been shattered by this cataclysmic
hurricane.

But wait! There's more!

The hurricane season is only half over. If
you watch the Weather Channel, you know new tropical
depressions are already in the Atlantic Ocean as I
write these very words. And the experts say the chances are good the last half of
this hurricane season is going to be worse than what
we have already experienced. "They" are out there. "They"
are gathering their strength. And "they" are coming to get
us.