Over the Hump in New Orleans

Yesterday one of our groups completed a drywall job!! It is great to see a project complete down here as there remains much to do.
In the past three days we have met many people, just walking by our sites, police on the street corner, and our homeowners that are most appreciative of the work being done here. They thank us continuously, no matter where we are for our love and care of our neighbors here.
Today we mixed-up our groups and went out to our two other job sites. One of our teammates stayed at the Mission Center to do tons of laundry from last weeks over capacity crowd.
As one of our groups traveled to a job site, in the University Hosptial/Superdome area, we noticed that a tent city we had seen the day before was moved across the street. Many tents were set-up under the highway, one next to the other, there had to be close to 20 or more and many people standing around watching the rush hour traffice drive by. We do not know if these people are homeless from the storm or homeless since the storm.
As we drove home today, we took the Rt. 11 bridge back to the Mission Center, to check on the progress of this area of the North Shore. For those of you who have been here you may know this area as the place with all the waterfront homes that are built on stilts. There are some homes that have been rebuilt, most lots still are vacant with only the old stilts sticking out of the water. There are also some homes that are not yet rebuilt and remain as the storm left them.
As we approach the third anniversary of Katrina the evidence of the storm is still everywhere. Homes are still marked with the "X" that let officials know that the house was inspected and whether there were any found dead in the home, as indicated by a 0 or another number in one the "X" quadrants. People here are still living in FEMA trailers and there are still many streets that have only a few complete homes while the rest of the neighborhood stands vacant.
Tonight, at our evening devotions, we reflected on the days work and our experiences on this hump day. We ended with a blessing: "...but may we realize that, whatever we can do, great or small, the efforts of all of us are needed to do thy work in this world."