Below are the 8 most recent journal entries recorded in wewillrebuild's LiveJournal:

Friday, September 16th, 2005
1:20 pm	We Will Rebuild New Orleans: Daily Status - 16-Sep-2005 Apologies for no status update yesterday, personal business related to getting back home caught up with me. Returning to New Orleans Lots of activity as the return starts in earnest. Orleans Parish plans a phased re-opening by zip code: 70114 and 70131 (most of Algiers) opens tomorrow, the rest of Algiers on Monday, 19-Sep. Uptown - 70115 on 21-Sep. CBD/Warehouse - 70112, 70113, 70116, 70118, 70130. on 23-Sep. French Quarter fully re-opened on Monday, 26-Sep. Jefferson Parish West Bank, Harahan, Kenner, River Ridge, Metairie from Transcontinental west to Kenner are re-opened.  Metairie east of Transcontinental to re-open Sunday, 18-Sep. St. Bernard Still closed, and still a mess.     [We Will Rebuild New Orleans] (Permanent link to this entry) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
12:03 pm	We Will Rebuild New Orleans: Daily Status - 13-Sep-2005 Flooding Pumps continuing to work.  More and more concerns are developing about the environmental situation in the city as the water levels drop. Cemeteries Photos of St. Louis Number One on Basin street show the cemetery got about a foot of water.  Greenwood Cemetery appears to be dry now, based on a photo on the front page of Da Paper's website this morning, although there's an exposed coffin on the side of the photo.  No reports yet on Holt Cemetery, located next to Delgado Junior College.  Its in-ground graves are probably the most at-risk of the local cemeteries. Schools Orleans Parish schools remain closed indefinitely, with no projected re-opening date.  Jefferson Parish public schools plan to re-open on 3-October.  Archdiocesan elementary schools have all re-opened in St. Charles and St. John Parishes, and Catholic schools in Jefferson Parish are working to re-open along at the same time as the public system. Private and parochial schools are all working to re-open as best as they can.  Brother Martin plans to resume classes in Baton Rouge, at the Catholic High campus, next Monday.  Jesuit High plans to re-open in warehouse space in Elmwood in January.  Other schools are struggling to accomodate their students in other cities while they work on rebuilding. [We Will Rebuild New Orleans] (Permanent link to this entry) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
10:18 am	We Will Rebuild New Orleans: Daily Status 13-Sep-2005 Flooding Water continues to drain from the city at the overall rate of approximately 6" per day. Power Entergy has 14% of Orleans and 70% of Jefferson restored. Returning The city is still closed to residents.  Business owners may enter to retrieve records, but are not allowed to remain beyond that. Jefferson Parish business owners are being allowed to return to Metairie and Kenner if their businesses are in certain categories considered essential.  Business owners can apply online for an access pass at www.jeffparish.net. Damage to the Causeway bridge has been repaired, and Jefferson business owners with access passes will be allowed to use it. Airport Louis Armstrong International opens today, with four commercial flights.  Concourse D is being restored for operations after being used as the medical triage site and Concourse C was damaged by the storm, but A and B are operational. [We Will Rebuild New Orleans] (Permanent link to this entry) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 12th, 2005
6:57 pm	We Will Rebuild New Orleans: Opportunity The official Jefferson Parish website has created a neat background graphic...click this link to load the graphic. It's nice, but let's see if anyone wants to take a shot at making some more... :-) [We Will Rebuild New Orleans] (Permanent link to this entry) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
10:46 am	We Will Rebuild New Orleans: Daily Status - 12-Sep-2005 Flooding According to NPR, satellite photos show the city 50% flooded, down a high of 80%.  Pumps are operating at capacity.  They city hopes to have the main waste water treatment plant on-line this afternoon. Returns to Metro New Orleans NOPD is allowing business owners to obtain one-day passes to obtain records and computer materials in the CBD.  Homeowners are not allowed back in the city yet. Plaquemines Parish residents are being permitted to return to their homes when they can. St. Bernard Parish is still in bad shape; the Parish Council will conduct business in Baton Rouge for the immediate future. Jefferson Parish residents are being allowed to return to assess damage, but much of the East Bank is without power and water. Mosquito Control The USAF Reserve will use a C-130 plane to spray the city with naled to kill flies and mosquitos.  This is the pesticide currently used regularly by mosquito control departments throughout the metro area.  This is very important step in rebuilding the city.       [We Will Rebuild New Orleans] (Permanent link to this entry) (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 11th, 2005
11:13 pm	We Will Rebuild New Orleans: Structure of this blog... This blog is to be a chronicle of the reconstruction of New Orleans. I plan on sharing various re-building articles and information as it develops.   In addition to the traditional blog-style postings you'll see here, I'm going to do a "Daily Status" post that I will offer as an e-mail distribution as well. I welcome other authors to this blog.  If anyone is interested in contributing to this project, I'm all for it.  Just drop me a line at edward at ebranley dot com and I'll add you.  The blog originates from the domain wewillrebuildnola.com, and is cross-posted from Movable Type to LiveJournal.  If you'd like to contribute to the blog, I'll set you up in MT on the server as an author.  The posts will all come over to LJ via the wewillrebuild account.  Speaking of LJ, if anyone would like to work up a style and such for wewillrebuild, I'd appreciate it.  I've never been big on LJ-styles even on my most creative day. I'm going to do my best to leave politics out of this blog.  If you want to follow the "blame game," I've got a lot to say on YatPundit, my regular blog, which is x-posted to mysticknyght on LJ.  The politics of rebuilding the city are different from my desire to see Bush in the dock, however, so we'll keep them separate. Any comments and/or suggestions are more than welcome.  I would much rather see this become a group effort. [We Will Rebuild New Orleans] (Permanent link to this entry) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
7:44 pm	We Will Rebuild New Orleans: We Will Rebuild On September 2, 2005, after it was clear that Hurricane Katrina had flooded 80% of the city of New Orleans, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert questioned whether New Orleans should be re-built at all: It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's 7 feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans. "It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed," the Illinois Republican said in an interview Wednesday with the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Ill. Yes, a lot of New Orleans is going to have to be torn down, just as a lot of the cities listed above will have to be torn down.  But just like Galveston after the 1900 hurricane, San Francisco after the 1905 earthquake, Dresden after the fire-bombing of WW2, and Hiroshima after the atomic bomb, New Orleans will be rebuilt.  The process has already begun.  People in suburban areas that were not heavily flooded are returning to clean up.  Those suburban areas, particularly East Jefferson, will be important staging areas for the construction crews and workers that will be coming into the city well into next year. Rebuilding New Orleans is going to take a good bit of thought and planning as well as money and hard work.  The accusations of "land grabs" are already flying, and the Corps of Engineers estimates it will be 40 days before the water's gone.  The poorest of the poor in the city have been dispersed all over the country.  The debate over accomodating these people in a rebuilt New Orleans will be vocal and passionate. Many residents of the city will likely not return.  That means a number of restaurants, bars, and other establishments that are considered landmarks will vanish with the waters.  Others will step up and keep the traditions of the city alive. This weblog will document the process. [We Will Rebuild New Orleans] (Permanent link to this entry) (32 Comments |Comment on this)
9:16 am	We Will Rebuild New Orleans: Test Post Test Post   [We Will Rebuild New Orleans] (Permanent link to this entry) (Comment on this)