Remember Bunny? Here’s the latest on the Ride to Rebuild.
After biking 1,500 miles, we are almost done with Wyoming! And while it has been beautiful we are ready to head into Colorado. Our highest climb of 11,000 feet will be coming up in a few days.
These five young people put months in helping on the [...]

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Bunny [the friend formerly known as PG] has updated me on her ride across America.
We are currently in Riggins, ID for the night. We’re taking an easy day tomorrow-about 27 miles into Whitebird. Then the next day will be a climb up to Grangeville. We’ll be in Missoula August 2nd or 3rd. Then we’ll be [...]

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A group of young people ride to help rebuld the Gulf

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Fingers in the federal pie

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This week’s CoHR is hosted at Vitamin B16:
Especially interesting posts:
- RadioBlogger’s long post about a mission to gut houses (lots of pix!)
- Blogger Laura on one way to make lemonade from lemons (or downed trees)
- Mark Hancock on a rehabbed baseball field
- Economic, demographic and geographic change from a variety of bloggers
- A local weatherman [...]

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Jewish Chronicle
It takes less than three minutes for a visitor to see evidence of disaster in New Orleans, said Rabbi Andrew Busch, spiritual leader of the city’s Touro Synagogue and a former Pittsburgher.
“There’s hardly a street you drive down where hurricane damage is not in evidence,” Busch said. The damage, he said, cuts across economic [...]

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This is number 40 of the Carnival of Hurricane Relief. We cannot forget our own. Americans still are homeless. Americans still are jobless. Americans still hurt. Don’t forget our own!
BLOGS:
Wet Bank Guide - No need to carry flood insurance. No longer in the flood plain.
Humid City v2.3 - Marking the start of hurrican season.
Metroblogging [...]

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If you thought you knew what happened, you don’t. Read the entire story.
RealClearPolitics
As has been reported, when the Superdome was established as a shelter of last resort on the weekend before Katrina hit, the Louisiana National Guard sent several hundred soldiers there who were trained in policing and crowd control. They also, as rarely noted, [...]

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Louisiana tried to conduct an evacuation drill. I headed this post with the word “FAIL” because it did. Let’s face it, if these petty squabbles aren’t ironed out by now, they’ll still be causing problems when the next hurricane blows through.

AP
A mock evacuation that was supposed to be part of a two-day statewide hurricane preparedness [...]

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Episcopal News Service
During a touching and jubilant press conference on May 8, a group of drivers from the Diocese of Virginia and St. Mark’s Church in Richmond arrived at Camp Coast Care in Long Beach, Mississippi, with eight full-sized work trucks as well as a 15-passenger van.
Led by the Rev. Charles D. “Buck” Aiken Jr., [...]

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