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>     But: How long do we realistically expect these poor flooded-out
>     people to wait for custom milled to match the originals according
>     to approved shop drawings, and fabricated from organically-grown
>     renewable Honduran mahogany?     I'd be willing to bet there were
>     plenty of shitty replacement doors on these houses before the
>     hurricane, too.
>
> I'm on Ralph's side.  Even though he isn't on mine.   Christopher

What bothers me is not only cannot the govt. get its crap together to 
respond to the situation in the Gulf region but that our national supply 
pipeline for windows & doors is brain dead. I have no qualms regarding 
folks having a need to secure their property... I'm all for it.... and 
I've been there and seen it... I wolda had the Home Depot door in there 
in no time flat no questions asked... what makes me sick is that our 
country cannot seem to do any better than this. It is not simply a 
devastation of flesh & blood and building stock, it is an abandonment of 
spirit.

They get stamped out doors that don't even fit. Why the hell don't Home 
Depot (the CEO or whatever just got $250M or somesuch when they fired 
him) go down there and figure out how to provide appropriate sized doors 
& windows at the least. They can go back to whomever their supply 
manufacturers are and tell them to do better. I understand that my local 
Home Depot drops a million a year out the back door into the dumpsters 
--- and that it is considered normal. Why the hell can't these folks in 
NOLA get respect?

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In separate back-channel to AA re: her apology for making me feel ill --

Trust me... sick but kinda laughing at the same time. Pathetic is the 
phrase I think most apt. I certainly understand the frustration of 
wanting to get back into the house. Ironic I think in terms that this 
sort of application of mass produced fenestration will in time become a 
style... it will be remembered as historic artifact on those structures 
where it never leaves, or leaves traces behind. In my own community the 
downtown section, between the two stop lights, is mainly made up of old 
bunkhouse cottages from a former Camp Upton used by the army during WW2 
and eventually became what is now Brookhaven National Laboratories. When 
the camp was decommissioned folks bought up the 4 person bunkhouses and 
moved them down to a straight section of an otherwise unoccupied road 
and voila... a new town was born. I also spend a lot of time comparing 
our local Home Depot w/ our not so local Lowes and find the network of 
supply of building materials, for the housing market and/or histo presto 
rather interesting. So don't worry about the retch index here.

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