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As you can tell by this photo, I have been doing something different lately. I became involved with Medical Teams International and have been traveling to the Gulf States with a reconstruction team to areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
The first trips were to Moss Point, Mississippi in August 2006 and again in January 2007. In November 2007, we traveled to New Orleans to help people who—two years after Hurricane Katrina—were still in FEMA trailers and working to reconstruct their homes. Our construction team restored several houses that were stripped of roofing, siding, drywall, flooring, wiring and plumbing.
With the recent flooding in Vernonia, Oregon in December 2007, I joined up with cleanup crews from Village Baptist Church. Over several days scores of us distributed food, household supplies and removed piles and piles of flood debris.
Should you desire to participate in cleanup and reconstruction efforts, please email me at with your name, contact information, any construction skills and general availability. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
According to U of O, "This multi-disciplinary lecture series is concerned with how architecture and planning responds to major events in the life of cities that cause their physical and social fabric to be suddenly and severely disrupted. As wars, natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes, and massive human migrations continue to affect the world's cities, this timely lecture series will explore a variety of architectural and planning approaches toward the reconstruction of a number of places that have suffered the effects of widespread destruction."
Lectures were conducted by architectural historians and planners from around the world on the following dates:
For more information, contact Dale Himes at .