Melissa Harris-Perry's NOLA Home demolished by Isaac

[Ruby the Liberal]

@MHarrisPerry
Feeling sad. #Isaac took the home @JamesHPerry and I just bought. All safe. House was vacant except for my dreams.



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Eerie - she JUST did a post-Katrina tour of her home last Saturday. Video:

http://mhpshow.msnbc.com/_news/2012/08/25/13478814-on-katrinas-anniversary-a-bit-of-homework?lite

Edit - fix image, add video.

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. Sorry - fixed the image. nt

[KharmaTrain]

2. She Did A Report On It Last Weekend...

Only three walls were still standing and the insides looked like they'd gone through lots of wood rot over the past 8 years. I'm hoping she had some kind of property insurance but she must have known that it would and still will cost a lot of money to restore that property. Now she can start fresh...Isaac may have done her a big favor...

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. In looking at the video, I agree

If she plans to stay there, this may potentially make it easier to rebuild from scratch than to try to work with what Katrina left standing.

Still heartbreaking.

[bunnies]

5. I was just thinking the same thing.

The house was already in dreadful condition. Three walls, rotten wood... wouldnt take much to tear the thing apart (obviously).

[bluedigger]

6. I don't think you understand the loss.

There are plenty of vacant lots available to build on in New Orleans. The house represented a lot more than that.

[KharmaTrain]

7. I've Traveled To The Lower 9th...And 7th...

...and spoken with many people who lost all they had in Katrina. More important...they've rebuilt against tremendous odds. You are right...there are far too many vacant lots around the devestated areas of the city...many are privately owned but the owners are STILL waiting on insurance claims or just don't have the money to rebuild (especially to the newer and stricter codes).

From the report it looked like she and her husband hadn't done any rebuilding yet...thus, while it's the loss of an old home that could have been turned into a new one, she still retains the property and hopefully the financial resources to rebuild...and encourage others to follow suit.

Cheers...

[bluedigger]

8. It sounds like they had just acquired it.

It's a damn shame they didn't close off the open end right away; it would probably have survived, but not with hurricane winds blowing through it. Now it's just another tear-down for the city demo program. I expect they will look for another house to restore, rather than new construction.

[polichick]

3. Damn!