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FROM THE EDITOR

AS OF THE PRINTING OF THIS ISSUE OF GAMBIT,

it’s been 12 days since Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana.

For most of those days, it was hard to feel lucky in any meaningful way. Power was out for much of the time, it was unbearably hot, and it took several days for official aid resources to get up and running.

Although the city of New Orleans itself was spared some of the worst physical damage Ida had to offer, lives were still lost, homes severely damaged and all of our lives have been upended.

In Jefferson, Terrebonne and other parishes the storm brought much greater devastation: whole towns have been destroyed, most of the region remains without power or reliable drinking water and the recovery process is only beginning.

Like you, many of the names on our masthead remain displaced by Ida, are helping elderly or sick family members cope without power or adequate medical assistance and are simply trying to, well, recover. Putting this issue of Gambit together was not easy, but we felt it necessary, both for ourselves but also to highlight something remarkable that has happened.

Since first light after the storm, we have seen countless acts of kindness and community in fel-

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Even in our darkest times, New Orleanians know how to ease suffering and have a good time while doing it.

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SEPTEMBER 14 — 20, 2021 VOLUME 42 || NUMBER 36

lowship. Literally within hours of the storm pulling out of New Orleans, volunteers from Culture Aid Nola and Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen were hard at work prepping meals for anyone in need.

Neighbors were checking on one another and assessing the damage for those who’d fled.

Kindness and empathy are very much a hallmark of New Orleans, and it’s often too easy to simply say “that’s how we do” and brush past the remarkable good of this city, and this region. Which is why this week’s issue of Gambit is special. In it, we’ve collected stories and images of New Orleanians who saw a need and stepped in to help. Musicians who saw the suffering of our neighbors and did what they could.

Restaurants who fed a weary city for free. Strangers who came to help save our furry friends in their time of need.

The struggle to recover continues in our beloved city — and the challenges will likely grow greater in the bayou and river parishes as the weeks go by and national attention wanders to the next tragedy. So, there remains work to be done.

But for now, we celebrate you. In the darkest moments of the last two weeks and for the many weeks it will take to rebuild our entire region, New Orleanians have been, and will continue to be, a shining light of hope, love and laughter.

We can think of no better family to have than you.

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Still, we dance When the lights went out after Ida, the heart of New Orleans shone bright

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Lucky Johnson, right, helps carry the food that Miss Boudreaux cooked and dropped off at the corner of Downman and Morrison roads.

AS OF PRESS TIME, ELECTRICAL POWER HAD BEEN RESTORED to most of New Orleans and other parts of the metro area. However, huge swaths of south Louisiana remain without electricity — and in many cases water. Getting the entire region back to a basic level of inhabitability will likely take till the end of the month. The rebuilding process will take years. As was the case after Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago, full recovery will be a marathon, not a sprint.

In this issue of Gambit, we lift up those who have done good works, both large and small, to help our neighbors and communities. But we must remember there is much to be done. New Orleans can sometimes feel like an island, but we are not.

Our culture, our people and our history are a part of a larger patchwork across south Louisiana, and the struggles of harder-hit communities must become our struggles as well. We owe them that.

Thankfully, and perhaps predictably, people from New Orleans and across south Louisiana have already begun the work of immediate recovery, as well as long-term rebuilding. In our cover story and elsewhere in this issue, we highlight these individuals and groups and urge everyone to donate whatever money, resources and time they have to help folks in the devastated bayou and River Parishes regions.

To our neighbors in those areas we say, “We remember how you helped us in our time of need. We will not forget you now.” Because that’s how we do, south Louisiana (see pg. 20 for a list of groups working in the region).

One of the unique parts of our culture is that we never really “move

on” from a thing, traumatic or not.

Rather, history is quite clear. This city has always done the opposite. New Orleans’ story is one of embracing difference, incorporating newcomers and ideas and building upon, rather than around, the moments when new and old come into conflict. You can hear it in our music, taste it in our food, see it in our architecture, and hear it in our way of talking. Throughout our history, generations have woven crises, blessings and tragedies into the fabric of our city and region.

That penchant for “holding on” helps us bind the disparate micro-communities we inhabit in our day-to-day lives and turn them into the improbable thing that is New Orleans. And when things go wrong, that interconnectedness is the first and strongest instinct of anyone who calls this city home. It’s what drives those who evacuate to organize fundraising and supply operations, or help get word to family members of complete strangers that their loved ones are safe.

We see it on street corners and stoops where those who stayed behind pool their food each evening to feed whoever comes along, or to trek into bayou country to bring diapers, water and food to

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our neighbors who have been hit so much harder than most. The speed with which average citizens leapt into action in the days after Ida hit was both extraordinary and typical of south Louisiana, and like everything else was born of our shared history of disasters.

We can never erase the trauma of the past. To attempt to do so would be folly, but even if possible, it would mean fundamentally undoing who we are as a people. So we carry it with us, until it eventually becomes a part of us, and hopefully make us better. In the face of yet another disaster, we remain hopeful — and inspired by the love and kindness of those whom we

Buck Horton, right, and his friends have been cooking and serving hot food in New Orleans East ever since Hurricane Ida.

first met as strangers but now are family forever.

Finally, a word of thanks to the tens of thousands of line workers and volunteer aid workers who rushed to Louisiana to help. In our time of need, many of them slept in their trucks or dark, hot hotel rooms in order to feed us, rescue us and our pets, cut the power on and generally reassure us that we are not alone.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

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Dear reader,

Like most cities across the country, New Orleans first saw the glow of electric lights in the early 1880s.

According to the Louisiana Dept. of Natural Resources, the Southwest Brush Electric Light and Power Company was the first local power company. It began operating in 1882.

According to geographer and historian Richard Campanella, theaters, hotels and department stores were among the first to electrify, some seeking a competitive advantage by powering up.

The Edison Electric Illuminating Company, chartered in 1886, was the first in the city to offer incandescent lighting. Dozens more utility companies followed, including the New Orleans Railway and Light Company, founded in 1905. In addition to lighting homes and businesses, the company became the city’s main utility company, also powering the city’s ubiquitous streetcars.

In 1922, when that business went bankrupt, a new company was formed — New Orleans

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Public Service Inc., better known as NOPSI. It subsequently merged into the Electric Bond and Share Company of New York, known as EBASCO. That company, a subsidiary of General Electric, created the Electric Power and Light Corp. Among its holdings were NOPSI and Louisiana Power and Light Co. (LP&L), which served customers outside of Orleans Parish.

In 1994, NOPSI was reorganized and renamed Entergy New Orleans Inc. It is regulated by the New Orleans City Council.

AS HURRICANE IDA RELIEF EFFORTS CONTINUE , we’re spotlighting the history of two nonprofits whose work has been a lifeline for storm victims.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana was founded in 1982 by the then-Archbishop of New Orleans, Philip M. Hannan, Bishop Roger Morin and Gregory Ben Johnson, director of the Social Apostolate of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. By 1985, the program was dispersing more than 1 million pounds of food annually to local faith-based and nonprofit agencies. That same year it became a member of America’s Second Harvest (now known as Feeding America). The alliance allowed the food bank to receive large donations of food from all over the country. As it serves the needs of those affected by Ida, the Food Bank says every $1 it raises can help provide four meals. To donate, visit no-hunger.org.

Originally known as the Community Chest, the United Way of Southeast Louisiana was founded in 1924. It raised more than $900,000 in donations in its first year. It was renamed the United Fund in 1952, then joined United Way of America in 1974. The agency and dozens of partner agencies now serve residents in seven local parishes.

To donate to the United Way’s Hurricane Ida Relief Fund, visit unitedwaysela.org.

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Ida’s latest victim: the fall election schedule IN ADDITION TO LEVELING HOMES, businesses and the power grid across a wide swath of south and southeast Louisiana, Hurricane Ida has taken out the Oct. 9 primary and Nov. 13 runoff. Campaigns have paused as residents across south and southeast Louisiana struggle to get back into homes with power and internet and communities deal with federal bureaucrats to rebuild.

The new election dates are Nov. 13 for the primary and Dec. 11 for the runoff.

The revised election schedule will delay more than a half-dozen hotly contested races in New Orleans, a statewide referendum on four proposed constitutional amendments, and local referenda and races across the state.

The official announcement came Wednesday from Gov. John Bel Edwards, who followed an earlier recommendation by Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, the state’s chief elections officer.

“A number of issues stemming from Hurricane Ida’s devastation, including questions about nursing home operations, postal service delivery, extensive power outages, polling location damages, and election commissioners and staff members still displaced, would make holding the election on its original dates virtually impossible without impairing the integrity of the election,” Ardoin said in a statement accompanying his recommendation.

Because Louisiana is in a declared state of emergency, state law required Ardoin to assess damage to the state’s electoral infrastructure based on reports from parish clerks of court — and to make a recommendation to Edwards. The final decision to postpone the primary was the governor’s alone to make, though he consulted key legislators in addition to his top aides.

Along with Election Day voting, early voting dates also will be pushed back. The new dates for early voting in the primary will be Oct. 30-Nov. 6, except for Sunday, Oct. 31.

Right now, few voters beyond those actively involved in politics are even thinking about the elections — and that’s another reason for the postponement.

“The situation is a mess,” longtime Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court

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Jon Gegenheimer told Gambit, adding that he had recently asked Ardoin to recommend the delay.

“We have more than a thousand poll commissioners scattered about, some with destroyed homes, and Lafitte and Grand Isle are just about destroyed.”

The situation is the same across coastal Louisiana. Things are particularly dire in south Lafourche and Terrebonne, where Ida made landfall. Entire communities in those parishes were leveled, and people are struggling just to survive.

“I’ve never seen devastation after a storm like I’ve seen since Hurricane Ida,” state Rep. Tanner Magee, R-Houma and the House Speaker Pro Tempore told Gambit. “It feels like a war zone. Our residents are growing increasingly frustrated because we are not getting the attention the circumstances on the ground require. I can also say not a single resident in Terrebonne cares about elections right now.”

Those sentiments are not limited to coastal areas. The more than two dozen hardest-hit parishes enumerated in the federal disaster declaration contain more than 58 percent of the state’s registered voters.

They include population centers such as New Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany and Baton Rouge as well as small and medium-sized parishes such as West Feliciana, Iberville, Terrebonne and Lafourche.

Before the postponement, early voting was slated to begin soon —

Roofers begin repair work in Kenner after Ida. The storm has caused a delay in the fall elections.

on Sept. 25. That short time frame drove discussions among Ardoin, local elections officials in the hardest-hit parishes, Edwards and legislative leaders in the days after Ida made landfall.

Postponing an election is never an easy call to make. It’s fraught with logistical and political implications and ramifications. Republicans in the GOP-dominated Legislature are wary of any changes to election protocols, particularly those relating to mail balloting.

In this case, however, the question goes far beyond mail ballots. It was a matter of whether it’s possible or even safe to proceed with the October primary at all.

Veteran Louisiana pollster Silas Lee, a sociology professor at Xavier University who most recently polled for President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, says postponing the elections makes sense.

“People are traumatized,” Lee says. “They’re focused on trying to rebuild their lives. There’s also a lot of displacement. When people leave their homes, which offer emotional and physical security, and their lives are disrupted by a sudden catastrophic disaster such as this, it causes what psychologists call ‘collective stress.’ It’s very intense.

“In south and southeast Louisiana, they’re not focused on elections.

They’re trying to regain their social footing. Many don’t even feel human right now. They’re challenged by the stress of living and trying to get services back. Everything is disrupted. It’s even more of a challenge because we have a natural disaster on top of Covid, which is still very much a factor.”

Lee adds that people really don’t want to hear politicians asking for votes right now — and he offers words of caution to politicians who think the disaster is an opportunity to become what he calls “claim makers.”

“Don’t use this to try to define a situation and promote some kind of change, or claim you would have done things differently, or why wasn’t such-and-such better prepared,” Lee says of politicians campaigning for office. “It comes across as disingenuous, opportunistic, and exploiting peoples’ pain.

The problem is bigger than any politician. Voters want to know what elected officials are doing to help them survive and rebuild, not who they can blame for things that went wrong during a disaster.”

The storm and the delay present a quandary for candidates as well.

How do they campaign in such an environment?

“After a major disaster, most campaigns pause,” says local political consultant Todd Ragusa. “It’s insensitive to campaign at such a time, and it’s also impractical. You can’t send mailers out, and many people are not fully engaged on social media.

“Most candidates are driven by service,” Ragusa adds, “and there’s no greater need for service than right after a disaster. Many step up and offer help in any way they can, and I’ve been really impressed by seeing candidates give out food and help in other ways.”

Indeed. Social media has lit up with candidates pushing news about where to get food, gas, supplies and help — and all of it has helped.

“In the longer term, the decision to resume campaigning is going to be a matter of trying to figure when it’s appropriate, being sensitive to people’s experiences,” Ragusa said. “There’s an added challenge because campaigns also require fundraising, and candidates can’t do that right now. If the election cycle is longer, it requires more money, but waiting until it’s appropriate to resume campaigning can also compress the time they have to get their messages out.”

Meanwhile, voters across Louisiana remain focused on recovering from the storm.

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Remember the restaurants that fed people following Hurricane Ida | AFTER HURRICANE IDA took out power in New Orleans on its tear across the state and country, area restaurants were left without refrigeration and plenty of food on hand. Many put it to good use by giving out meals or just offering groceries en masse to people in need.

Some restaurants donated their food to relief efforts such as World Central Kitchen, celebrity chef Jose Andres’ mobile relief effort. Working in coordination with Culture Aid NOLA at the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute on Howard Avenue, they shipped meals from there to distribution points in the city and outlying parishes.

Former Gambit Editor Kevin Allman, from his home in southern California, noticed the efforts. Besides sharing the info to help hungry residents find food, he created an online map, so people can remember and support the restaurants who were generous in a time of need.

He dubbed the effort “Map of Restaurant Excellence,” or MRE. The map of area restaurants is below, along with an alphabetical list by area. Allman continues to update the map, which you can find online at bit.ly/3nfRAH9.

Map of Restaurant Excellence | Compiled by Kevin Allman After Hurricane Ida struck, these restaurants cooked for their neighbors free of charge or gave away the contents of their pantries, fridges and freezers. When things get back to whatever normal might be in the future, please support these generous places that already were suffering from the pandemic.

Pirogue’s Whiskey Bayou

BYWATER/MARIGNY Bar Redux Bywater Bakery Horn’s Eatery (catering offered) The Joint Kebab Morrow’s Pizza Delicious SukhoThai Sundae Best

CBD/WAREHOUSE DISTRICT Barcadia New Orleans Cochon Butcher Empire State Delicatessen The Howlin’ Wolf Johnny Sanchez La Boca Steakhouse Nesbit’s Poeyfarre Street Market Singleton’s Mini Mart Willie’s Chicken Shack World Central Kitchen at NOCHI

CARROLLTON/RIVERBEND Ajun Cajun Boucherie Carrollton Station

Live Oak Cafe Louisiana Pizza Kitchen Seafood Sally’s Z’otz Cafe

FRENCH QUARTER Beachbum Berry’s Latitude 29 Doris Metropolitan Manolito Palm & Pine

GRETNA Banana Blossom Thai Restaurant Island Paradise Restaurant & Grill

HAMMOND Punjabi Dhaba Indian Cuisine

LAKEVIEW Junior’s on Harrison

METAIRIE Moe’s Original BBQ — Metairie

MID-CITY/TREME Backatown Coffee Parlour Bevi Seafood Co. Blue Oak BBQ Cafe Degas Coffee Science Felipe’s Mexican Taqueria HEY Coffee Co. Juan’s Flying Burrito

MRE Q&A with Kevin Allman Kevin Allman spoke with Gambit about his MRE.

What spurred you to compile the map and list of places?

KEVIN ALLMAN: Like so many people, I was following Hurricane Ida and the immediate aftermath by doomscrolling through social media. One of the few bright spots was seeing chef Jose Andres and his nonprofit World Central Kitchen were in New Orleans before the storm hit, prepping free meals for what was to come.

Then I saw a couple of restaurants doing the same thing — either cooking food for the neighbors, for free, or giving away their inventories. Someone wrote, “I hope someone is making a list of all these places that are being so generous.” There’s not much I could do in California, but I thought, “I can do a Google map, so when things get back to what we laughingly call normal these days, people can visit these places and pay it back.”

How did you find places and what kinds of things did you include? Free cooked meals, food giveaways, nonfood giveaways?

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RIVER RIDGE Rosemary & Roux Cafe & Catering

UPTOWN Atchafalaya Barracuda The Courtyard Brewery Coquette Creole Creamery The Daily Beet Del Fuego Taqueria El Pavo Real Gracious Bakery Juan’s Flying Burrito Lilette Mr. Tequila Bar and Grill Origami Restaurant Rahm Haus Saba Saffron NOLA Slim Goodies Diner Surrey’s Cafe & Juice Bar

ALLMAN: Well, first, if a place was cooking and charging for food — that’s fine, no shade. Times are tough and tight. But I wanted to highlight the places that were saying “Come get a meal,” or “We’ve got these ingredients if you want them.” The meal part was important because, besides the kindness, it gave people a place to come together and commiserate, to have a comforting food ritual that wasn’t like the MRE situation after Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures.

I got most of my info from social media, texts, and emails. Some of the things I came across I couldn’t include because they were temporary, but they were beautiful. Neighbors setting up a “free store” on card tables with canned goods, diapers and such. One woman had put a massage table on the sidewalk to provide a few minutes’ relief for her neighbors. People that got power back ran extension cords to their front fences, offering free phone charges. Musicians providing the sound of the city, as always. Even at a time that was so miserable, it seemed everyone was trying to think of how to help their neighbors.

Did you get any feedback from chefs, restaurateurs and service industry people?

ALLMAN: Not yet. I expect they’re all pretty busy!

But I’ll keep adding to the map as I get more information. I’d really like to hear more about the restaurants on the Westbank, in Jefferson Parish, and on the Northshore that were feeding people.

The weeks after Katrina and the levee failures were so hopeless — I think this time New Orleanians were collectively ready to do something helpful.

That’s what I wanted to record for the better times — a restaurant guide based on generosity.

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WHEN HURRICANE IDA knocked out power in New Orleans, many restaurateurs knew it would be a while before they could reopen for business, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t feed people. With the lights out and the gas on, many started cooking and giving away hot meals.

Others gave away their uncooked food.

“My first thoughts were about people who had not evacuated because maybe they didn’t have the resources or there wasn’t time,” says Clare Leavy, owner of Live Oak Cafe on Oak Street.

“The sense of dread had just settled in when everyone accepted the news that we might be three weeks without power. And there was the Katrinaversary and the whole morale situation. So it was (killing) a lot of birds with one stone to prevent food from going to waste that could feed people.”

On Tuesday, two days after the storm, Live Oak gave away grit bowls with eggs, bacon and watermelon. As she worked through the perishables, Leavy served plate lunches with pasta, shrimp Creole, carnitas and white beans. By her second week, she had gotten into a groove and added a separate vegetarian dish.

Many restaurants around New Orleans and beyond made the most of the situation, choosing to feed their neighbors rather than let the food go to waste.

Just outside the French Quarter, Alonzo and Jessica Knox have battled one setback after another at their coffee shop and cafe Backatown Coffee Parlor. They opened the coffee shop near their longtime home in Treme. In 2019, they were nearly blocked off from customers by the collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel. Then COVID-19 came, and they had to discontinue live events like spoken word, art shows and pop-ups.

But when Ida left their home severely damaged and their restaurant without power, they wasted no time deciding what to do. They turned to key people in the neighborhood and social media to spread the word that they were giving away all their food, cooked and uncooked.

“We gave it out within three hours,” Alonzo Knox says.

In Broadmoor, El Pavo Real sits where Napoleon Avenue, South Broad Street and Washington Avenue converge. The blocks there have been a hub of activity with a city-run cooling station and some food distribution by World Central Kitchen.

But before those efforts were up and running, El Pavo owners Lindsey McClellan and Mario Aranda were serving the Mexican chicken soup caldo with noodles, shrimp and grits, and steak tacos with rice and beans to anyone who needed a meal.

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Neighbors eat free lunches provided by Live Oak Cafe on Sept. 2, after Hurricane Ida cut power for the area.

“We pulled all our patio furniture in the parking lot and put up a folding table with some chafing dishes on it,” McClellan says. “It was scoop and serve.”

Teams of linemen were clustered in the area for three days, and they helped an electrician restore El Pavo’s power.

McClellan and Aranda have also worked with several organizations and helpful neighbors. The Broadmoor Improvement Association, Second Harvest Food Bank and others donated food to their effort. A community garden supplied okra, peppers and herbs. Broad Street Cider bought andouille sausage for them to cook and an umbrella to put over their table, McClellan says. After World Central Kitchen distributed food in a threehour window at a nearby community center, it gave them the rest of its meals to hand out.

“It’s been a carousel of delights,” McClellan says with a laugh.

Most of her employees are evacuated, she says, and family and neighbors have stepped up to volunteer.

At Live Oak, most employees also remained evacuated, and Leavy got help from friends and roommates. With power returning early to her block, she also started providing free bags of ice, soft drinks and water. She opened half of the dining room so people could eat in air conditioning and use the bathroom, though she requires proof of vaccination and masks for people who stay indoors.

At Backatown, the Knoxes gave food away to many neighbors and others who saw their post on social media. But they also did it for themselves.

“The food giveaway lifted our spirits, to be honest,” Alonzo Knox says. “At times like these, it’s not about business. It’s about people pulling together.”

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Brandon “B-Boy” Brown smokes meats on Columbus Street near downtown Houma

Musicians bring aid to hard-hit Cajun towns postHurricane Ida P H OTO B Y S A R A H R AV I T S

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Terrebonne Parish School Board president Gregory Harding surveys damage in his backyard, where a tree crashed into his roof.

HOUMA — LOUIS MICHOT IS SOAKED IN SWEAT, showing the early signs of

a sunburn as he hands out to-go boxes of freshly smoked meat and chats with people. He’s been at it for hours, occasionally taking cover under a tent his friend and WWOZ radio host A.J. “Boudin Man” Rodrigue had set up on Rodrigue’s lawn near downtown Houma.

With Cajun French honky-tonk blasting from a generator-powered speaker, the Lost Bayou Ramblers singer and fiddle player surveys the slowly dwindling line of cars of people who’d come for food and other supplies, their lives thrown into chaos by Hurricane Ida. Michot estimates about 100 people had stopped by for a meal and supplies, which they heard about through social media and word-ofmouth in the tightly knit community. In addition to food, he’s handed out water, ice, tarps — whatever essentials were needed by people stranded without power and in the early stages of recovery, three days after the hurricane made landfall in nearby Port Fourchon.

Michot hadn’t initially set out to help the entire Houma community: He’d simply started trying to get things together to help Rodrigue repair his damaged roof. But it grew into a much larger operation once he realized the extent of the widespread damage. Now he’s making routine trips to the region, and efforts are snowballing.

“I was just going to come over and put a tarp on his house — but then I started talking to other people in the area,” Michot says. Concerned by what he heard, he “made a post [on Instagram] and money just started pouring in.”

It took the Grammy winning artist less than a day to raise $10,000 for supplies. The donations for the first relief effort arrived in mostly smaller

increments — $20-$50 donations — Michot says.

On his way to Houma, he bought bottled water, ice, cans of gasoline, tarps, diapers, menstrual products and 2x4s at big-box stores in Opelousas. Once here, he set up shop and the word quickly spread.

He also reached out to his friend Brandon “B-Boy” Brown, a chef and frequent fixture at Lost Bayou Ramblers shows, who prepared more than 50 pounds of meat, including pork steaks, chicken, red boudin and smoked sausage to give out.

“Louis called me and said, ‘Hey, maybe you can bring the grill,’” says a smiling Brown. “I said, ‘That’s what I love to hear.’”

Michot’s bandmate, Bryan Webre, and another New Orleans-based musician who grew up in Houma, DJ Doug Page also drove into the storm-battered town, along with a handful of other friends to help with the efforts.

While the mood is light among the small group of volunteers for most of the day — Cajun whiskey from Noah Lirette at nearby Terrebonne Distillery, who is also coordinating relief efforts, was involved — some recipients are overcome by the random act of kindness.

“The first lady who drove by started crying,” Michot says.

He says he felt a sense of urgency to get out there and start helping people as soon as he could.

“This storm was too expected,” he says. “Of course, it was going to happen, and there was no real plan.

People are just out here fending for themselves. They don’t have time for government relief to reach them.”

One person who stops by for a plate of food is Terrebonne Parish

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School Board President Gregory Harding. He’d evacuated to Lake Charles with his wife and teenage son, but his home up the road in Houma was damaged by a massive tree, which was entirely uprooted and had crashed into his roof.

Just up the street from Michot’s setup, Harding takes the meal back home to his carport while a few of his friends sit sipping beer and another climbs up the roof to install a tarp.

Watching Michot and friends handing out food, Clint Pellegrin says these sorts of efforts go a long way for people struggling from the aftermath of catastrophic storms, especially in the early days.

“If you wait on the government, you’re gonna be skinny,” he cracks.

For Michot, running supplies into Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes is a way to help his community, and a way to address some of his own frustrations. Like a lot of musicians, he’s struggled to find gigs since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and he

Louis Michot, pictured on the right, and a group of volunteers and friends who have been distributing supplies to people in hard-hit regions by Hurricane Ida.

now has plenty of time to help with recovery efforts, along with friends, fans and mutual aid groups in the region. He says he was dealing with inner turmoil about the loss of performance opportunities, but these donation efforts are helping him channel his ability to connect with the people of Louisiana.

His friend Rodrigue, meanwhile, is in high spirits. He pointed to a fallen transformer across the street and acknowledged he might not get power back for two weeks — but the general sentiment is that “it could have been worse.”

“I’m fine,” he jokes in between bites of a sandwich. “It’s like being at Bonnaroo, but better, because I have a battery-operated fan.”

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ASK STORMY DANIELS HOW SHE’S DOING ON DAY NINE OF IDA’S AFTERMATH, and she’ll

respond in the only reasonable way: by blowing a raspberry.

It’s not so much the effects of the storm on her personally — her house in Central City fared OK and her power came back after about a week. Instead, it’s an almost instinctual response born from the city’s collective discomfort and spending more than a week working non-stop with her self-dubbed “Apocalypse Crew” to help those in the area.

“As the days go by, we have all kind of hit emotional walls, especially dealing with the heat,” Daniels told Gambit last week. “Going day after day into these homes that are destroyed and [seeing] people that have lost everything, it wears on you emotionally. It’s very taxing.”

Daniels and her friends got to work first thing Monday morning after the storm hit. The needs were immediate — roofs had to be tarped, relatives and elderly neighbors needed to be checked on. Power was out everywhere, and it was obvious water, food and other necessities needed to be distributed.

So the Baton Rouge native used her large Twitter following, built up over her career as an adult film star and director, to get in touch with people who needed help.

“We didn’t wait for help to arrive, but I have a group of friends here that are very self-sufficient and caring and work together really great,” she says. “My friend Irin Sarx and her husband Jaysen Craves — even though she ended up breaking her toe and their roof caved in — they were the first people to have a generator. She just automatically started cooking and delivering meals and tarping roofs, and we just kind of came together and did what had to be done.”

Since then, the team of around 20 people have cooked and distributed hundreds of meals to New Orleanians, cleaned out fridges and collected and delivered critical supplies to people in need, such as water, ice, diapers, period products and tarps. It’s been a community effort, with local business owners Janya Mercado of Bar Redux and Scott Wood of Courtyard Brewery donating their food and offering their spaces as distribution and supply dropoff locations.

Michael Davis, painter Miz Marrus, musician Benjamin Strange, artist Bunny Danger and Justin Loupe, who stars in

the “Spooky Babes” paranormal show with Daniels, have all been part of Daniels’ Apocalypse Crew, working day in and day out to get basic supplies and needs to residents.

“I didn’t really hear about any other big figures in the community or political figures [organizing help] and [many of] the churches were shut down,” Daniels says. “And here we have this group of like punks, goths and witches and kind of what you would assume to be the outcasts just getting shit done.”

The DIY, boots-on-theground crew has made it a point to help some of the city’s often isolated and forgotten populations, showing up on doorsteps of local halfway houses with food or delivering newborn-sized diapers to a mother whose child needed them.

“We all rallied together and found them and brought them to a woman who had a baby wrapped in a towel, and so it’s very fulfilling to know that the item they need goes directly to the person,” she says.

Daniels says using her network of social media followers and friends in the arts community has had the added benefit of not going through large traditional charity groups, who sometimes don’t want to work with her.

“It was kind of great for me because I’ve had difficulty in the past with charities not wanting to work with me just because they don’t want the backlash of working with a porn star, Stormy Daniels,” she says. “This was just such a great way to make sure that the person in need got directly what they needed from us.”

In the second week of recovery, the crew is turning its efforts to hard-hit areas of Houma, collecting donations of water, diapers and canned food at Courtyard Brewery and delivering them by truck on a daily basis. Chef Susi Q Beck recently formed Dirty South Disaster Relief with more people returning to town, and she’s acting as the point person to connect people willing to do labor and help clean houses with people who need help.

Though the work has been grueling,

and the social media trolls unrelenting, they’ve found ways to have a little fun along the way. The day after the storm hit, Daniels and friends used a generator to watch “Cruella” — which she says is a must-see — and then sing karaoke at Courtyard Brewery. Songs of choice included “a lot of Misfits because that’s what we are,” Daniels says.

They spent another night at Sarx and Craves’ house, with nothing but candles, hot beer and Loupe playing songs on acoustic guitar, including his band Deadsled Funeral Co.’s “Hysteria.”

“There’s these great moments of friendship and love that I don’t think anywhere else in the world, or at least in the states that I can think of, would be like that,” Daniels says. “I have a lot of friends in L.A., from my time in the adult business, that commented, ‘Wow, now I can’t wait to get to New Orleans and go there on my next trip and give back and see what you’ve been talking about all these years. Because in L.A. we would have just watched each other drown and taken a selfie of it.’ And like that’s fucking accurate.”

“You have to take moments,” she adds. “That’s the great thing about New Orleans. We can turn anything into a party. I don’t know how appropriate that is, but that’s what makes the city so wonderful, and to me, it’s the best place in the whole world.”

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Sound on AS HURRICANE IDA MOVED INTO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA, Nate Cameron and

his family were in Little Rock, Arkansas, keeping a close eye on the news. At the same time, musician Pell was doing the same thing in Los Angeles.

The two New Orleanians were calling and texting each other and the other members of GLBL WRMNG, the collective of rappers, songwriters and producers they’d formed early this year, to make sure people had funds and what they needed to either get out of town or weather the storm. They dipped into personal funds and money GLBL WRMNG had earned from a few recent live events to help out.

But as the storm walloped Louisiana, they knew the need was going to be immense.

“We were just like, what can we do? How can we use our influence, our connection to this demographic of creatives in the region and also our connection to some bigger companies and businesses?” Cameron says. A music industry professional, Cameron is the tour manager for Tank and the Bangas and the board president of the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans.

GLBL WRMNG started collecting

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GLBL WRMNG co-founder Nate Cameron

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donations — both from the public and companies Cameron and Pell have worked with — to turn right back around and send to Black and Brown musicians and artists impacted by Ida. They set up a minimal Google form asking for a name, phone number, how many people in the household and what is needed, and have so far raised about $5,500 and given out more than $6,000 directly to more than 70 people.

“Folks have really been responsive,” Cameron says. “So many New Orleanians have given. It’s emotional to see that people who are going through the same thing but are in places of even temporary privilege saying, ‘Look I don’t have much but I want to give this.’ ” Adding to the “GLBL” aspect, people in four countries outside the U.S. have donated, Cameron adds.

In Ida’s wake, New Orleans musicians have stepped up for one another and the region. The hurricane is only the latest disaster to hit the cultural community: COVID-19 wiped out months of gigs and the 2020 festival season, and then the Delta variant surged and wiped out a whole second season. Musicians have had to learn the hard way how far a dollar stretches — but they’re jumping at the chance to help.

Like GLBL WRMNG, Boyfriend and Louis Michot (read more about his efforts on Page 14), musicians are using their platforms to raise donations either to offer direct help or to support an organization offering mutual aid. The Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans has relaunched its micro-grants program —an initiative created in the early days of Covid to give low-barrier financial help to the city’s culture bearers — as has the Preservation Hall Foundation with its own Musician Relief Fund. Both programs are currently asking for donations to help fund grants.

And the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic and Assistance Foundation has been on the ground to support elders and clients with supplies and mental and physical health check-ins. NOMC also has been working with The Howlin’ Wolf and Culture Aid NOLA in their food distribution efforts.

The biggest needs among the artists GLBL WRMNG has helped have been funds for gas and lodging, Cameron says. His wife, Krystle Sims-Cameron, also has been directing mutual aid for Black women,

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youth and the LGBTQ community.

For the elders NOMC works with, ice to store medicines while the power was out amid oppressive heat has been one of the biggest needs, says Erica Dudas, the managing director of the New Orleans Musicians’ Assistance Foundation.

“We thought water would be the major problem — we didn’t think that electricity would be [out this long],” Dudas says. “But we were ready. The day after the storm we were calling our elders to figure out what their status was.”

The list of elders the organization regularly checks on in the wake of the storm has grown to more than 150, with NOMC delivering grocery boxes and other essentials.

The group also is accepting donations to help with providing health care as well as funding a financial relief program.

“It’s been a real endurance test for our musicians who have already been tapped out so much … If it’s not Covid and the inability to gig, it’s the City Hall debate at Congo Square,” Dudas says. “All of our elders are so tired, and they just need some love right now.”

In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans worked to

share information about the mutual aid groups working in the region.

The immediate move was to direct people’s donations to the organizations working on the ground here, says MaCCNO Executive Director Ethan Ellestad. Last week, MaCCNO decided to restart its micro-grants program to provide any assistance it can.

“In the past 18 months, there hasn’t really been a space where people could truly get back up on their feet. I think that’s one of the real challenges — resources have already been slim,” Ellestad says.

“I think one of the most important things is this comes right after the governor canceled the supplementary unemployment insurance that helped gig workers.”

The region’s musicians quickly stepped up to help one another and their communities at large. But long-term recovery — and getting people ready before the next storm — is going to require real investment from the city and state in the cultural community.

“Every time there’s a disaster, you put in some money and then you turn around and do something else,” Ellestad says. “The safety net, you’ve got to do some longterm support.”

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Isolated Louisiana tribal communities suffer Ida’s devastation | POINTE AU CHIEN — Hurricane Ida’s destruction of this small indigenous community was almost complete.

Nearly every structure along this two-lane stretch of Highway 665, where roughly 700 members of the Pointe-Au-Chien tribe live, was destroyed or badly damaged.

“Our community isn’t here,” says member Theresa Dardar.

Yet two buildings remain, largely unscathed. The Live Oak Baptist Church in Terrebonne Parish had a toppled steeple on the lawn, but no other obvious damage.

And the tribe’s headquarters, a sturdy raised aluminum building, also still stands.

Now, as members of the tribe and surrounding areas begin returning home, the buildings have become the seeds of this community’s recovery, transformed into aid distribution sites and the epicenters of recovery efforts.

For South Louisiana’s indigenous population, Ida has been a devastating blow. The storm ripped through their traditional lands, which in many cases are some of the most remote areas of the state. And while there has been some attention to their plight in the days immediately following Ida, it will take years — and significant resources — for them to recover.

Residents were ordered out under a mandatory evacuation, and most still are not able to return. People here are fiercely tied to their land and homes: One resident tried to stay and ride out the storm but the sheriff dragged him out, Dardar says.

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t was a wise decision, in the end.

Officials don’t expect power to be restored until the end of the month.

Still, a few tribal members and other members of this tight knit community have returned. The Dardars have a generator, for instance, and are among the few who have returned to sleep in their home. It survived because they armored their roof with another tin roof on top of it years ago after another storm damaged it.

Theresa’s husband, Donald, who is a co-chair of the tribe, has been driving around on a tractor to clear debris and send updates about the wreckage to those who are still gone.

The Indian French-speaking tribe and others in the region, including Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe, the Grand Caillou/ Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and the Bayou Lafourche Band are struggling to figure out what to do next. Insurance rates are so high most of them do not have policies because they can’t afford them.

Their populations were already dwindling.

Most young people move out of the area to bigger towns and cities, says Pointe-Au-Chien Councilmember Christine Verdin, and accelerating coastal erosion has swallowed up much of the land they used to occupy.

Many live in poverty that worsened after the BP oil spill.

Carl Couvillier, who stopped by the headquarters to check on friends, says the indigenous population’s livelihoods were severely damaged by the environmental disaster.

Residents of the area take their boats along Bayou Pointe Au Chien, which serves as the parish dividing line between Terrebonne and Lafourche, to trawl into Lake Barre and Lake Chien, and other larger waterways. But he says the shrimping industry has declined every year since the spill occurred 11 years ago.

It’s not just the homes that were damaged in Ida, either. The bayou is filled with collapsed and partially sunken boats and storm debris.

All along the highway, it appears that only a massive stack of crab traps survived the storm intact because they were securely tied down with ropes.

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ome are determined to rebuild, but many are elderly and will require assistance during what will be a lengthy recovery.

Verdin says it’s difficult to ask for help but easy to give it out. Until Ida, the worst damage they’d suffered was during Hurricane Betsy in 1965.

This storm is far worse.

“Our residents are proud and resourceful,” she says. “We have lived off the land for years. We have always been able to sustain ourselves. But this is the first time a storm has been this bad. We don’t have the resources to get back to where we were.”

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Christine Verdin, a councilmember of the Pointe-Au-Chien tribe, stands in front of her childhood home, destroyed

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Damaged boats in Bayou Pointe Au Chien

For now, the community is relying on mutual aid, including groups that have caravanned in from New Orleans.

On Sept. 8, the environmentally minded nonprofit Glass Half Full, which collects discarded glass and converts it to sand, organized a group of around 75 volunteers to help set up distribution points for supplies at the church and the headquarters.

Tulane professor Jelagat Cheruiyot helped the founders of Glass Half Full — former students — connect with the tribal members, with whom she’s been working for several years.

“Most of us feel like we were spared the worst of the hurricane [in New Orleans],” says Franziska Trautmann, a co-founder of Glass Half Full. “So we did what we could to help others there. Then we decided to shift our focus. [Cheruyot] knew how bad the destruction was, so we joined forces.”

Trautmann was surprised that so many people signed up to help after she posted on social media. One hundred more volunteers signed up

to join the nonprofit for a second outing Sept. 11.

Volunteers packed into SUVs hauled disinfectant products, buckets, bottled water, toilet paper and non-perishable food, in addition to tarps, pet food and other essential supplies. They doused themselves in bug spray and walked along the highway, dodging downed power lines and poles, to survey the damage and begin clearing debris and cleaning.

“I don’t even need to give addresses,” Dardar says. “I just asked them to go clean where it needs to be cleaned because everywhere needs to be cleaned.”

Normally used as a space for socializing and holding meetings, the tribe headquarters is now a “free store,” Dardar jokes. And it’s open to anyone in the area who needs supplies — not just its members.

“This isn’t tribal; this is community,” she says. “People are donating to the tribe, but the tribe is donating to everyone. Everyone is in need. It’s not our disaster. It’s everyone’s disaster.”

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WHEN THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY SAW

Ida was coming, they knew local animal shelters would need some extra help rescuing and feeding pups, cats, rabbits, pigs — and yes, even a miniature pony here and there.

So they hit up Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit International Fund for Animal Welfare in advance to get additional boots on the the ground.

Around a dozen people came to Louisiana from IFAW, and they teamed up with other organizations like local animal shelters, the ASPCA and animal disaster response group Code Three to form four teams of four who drove to some of the hardest hit areas in the state — Jefferson and Terrebonne parishes.

The teams drove around looking for animals and assessing their needs. If the animals were in bad shape, IFAW volunteers would take them to receive medical care and rehabilitate them. If they were OK, they would feed them and put up signage so other team members could return and continue feeding them. Sometimes, the work involved setting up makeshift temporary shelters for animals or prepping local shelters to take in lost and abandoned pets.

Among the IFAW members were D.C. vet tech and house DJ Freddy Williams, who helped with recovery and rescue in Terrebonne Parish, including Houma and the tiny towns of Dulac and Montegut, as well as the assessment of the situations in Bayou Dularge, Bayou Petit Caillou and Theriot.

“It’s as far south as the Gulf goes basically,” Williams says. “I mean, we’re talking like maybe 20 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.”

For eight days straight, the team would wake up for a 6 a.m. briefing. Then, they’d pack up their gear and food and head to the day’s meeting point, usually a shelter in Jefferson Parish, where they’d get additional equipment and then drive to their assigned location and begin their work.

“Our efforts are to kind of get things in order … so that the shelters know exactly how much staff

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Spending time in these smaller towns devastated by the storm weighed heavily on him, Williams says.

“It’s sad because in certain areas, I think there are some people that didn’t have a lot to begin with,” he says. “This is complete devastation, just down to the foundation or the driveway even, just the concrete ... [Ida’s] course was kind of breathtaking to see the power that this wind had on property there.”

But through it all, he was floored by the generosity of the community, which in typical Louisiana fashion was quick to offer their team home-cooked meals.

“The spirit of the community down there is just amazing,” Williams says. “The volunteers that were at the shelter — some of them have lost their homes or homes are damaged — were cooking for us. They were offering us things, and they have nothing right now.”

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Hurricane Ida Mutual Aid and Relief Groups PARTICULARLY IN THE BAYOU AND RIVER PARISHES, recovery from Hurricane Ida is still in its early stages. A small army of mutual aid groups, churches, nonprofits, individuals and even bands have begun ramping up their efforts to help survivors of the storm. From Gentilly to Grand Isle, these groups have been working tirelessly for days, often using personal funds to secure needed supplies.

Below is a by no means exhaustive list of these groups. Because of the uncertain and often in-flux nature of providing relief, we have provided websites for most non-governmental or church organizations, and if you are in need, please reach out to them. We also have included specific links to donate to these groups for those who are able to help.

Louisiana Bucket Brigade labucketbrigade.org

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is organizing aid and relief efforts in the New Orleans area, the River Parishes and other parts of southeast Louisiana.

Donate: labucketbrigade.salsalabs.org/standwithus/index.html

ORLEANS PARISH ORGANIZATIONS To find daily locations for food and other supplies or assistance, NOLA Ready has also created a special site to track them, trumba.com/calendars/hurricaneida.

Committee for a Better New Orleans

REGION WIDE GROUPS World Central Kitchen wck.org

Chef Jose Andres’ international food assistance organization, which is cooking food in New Orleans and helping feed folks throughout the area.

Donate: donate.wck.org/give/236738/#!/donation/checkout

The Mutual Aid Response Network imaginewaterworks.org/mutual-aid-response-network

Led by Imagine Water Works and organizing mutual aid groups across south Louisiana. Will support relief and recovery efforts as well as preparation for the rest of hurricane season.

Donate: Donorbox.org/ida

Southern Solidarity southernsolidarity.org

Distributing aid, meals and water to the area’s unhoused population.

Donate: southernsolidarity.org/donate

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief mutualaiddisasterrelief.org

National network focused on grassroots mutual aid relief work. Contributions will aid in supplies collected from across the country and distribution in areas impacted by Hurricane Ida. Donate: mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/donate

NOLA Ready oxygen tanks program ready.nola.gov/home For New Orleanians in need of oxygen tanks, the city is providing sites where they can be obtained for free.

2920 Magazine St., 5403 Read St., 2500 General de Gaulle Drive (504) 658-2558, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

GLBL WRMNG Relief Aid linktr.ee/glblwrmng504 New Orleans hip-hop collective GLBL WRMNG is providing direct financial relief to BIPOC artists, musicians and creatives displaced by Hurricane Ida.

cbno.org

Donate: via PayPal at GLBL WRMNG

An organization of community, business and political leaders in New Orleans. CBNO has been providing food in the wake of Hurricane Ida.

Mutual Aid — New Orleans Facebook group

Donate: cbno.org/donate

Feed the Second Line feedthesecondline.org

An initiative started during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Krewe of Red Beans, Feed the Second Line provides food for members of the cultural community, frontline workers and others in need.

Donate: feedthesecondline.org/donate

facebook.com/groups/MutualAidNOLA Though the group does not normally use or solicit cash donations, given the extraordinary circumstances caused by Ida, organizer Alex Anderra has asked for donations to provide “communal gas, solar chargers, tarps, water” and other supplies free to the community.

Donate: via Venmo at @caminocreative, via Cash App at $alexem9

Black Man Rising facebook.com/blackmanrisng

Culture Aid NOLA cultureaidnola.org

The organization provides assistance to underserved members of the hospitality and culture communities of New Orleans Donate: cultureaidnola.org/support

Antonio Travis organized the group to help give aid to the young Black New Orleanians it serves.

Donte: via Cash App at $tonytee10

New Orleans Mutual Aid Group

Musicians’ Clinic

Supporting New Orleans-based recovery efforts.

Provides health care and other services to musicians, performing artists and culture workers in New Orleans.

Donate: via Venmo at @NolaMutualAid

The clinic has put together a list of Ida-related health services, including mental health, at neworleansmusiciansclinic.org/ida

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Donate: neworleansmusiciansclinic.org/getinvolved/donate

House of Tulip

Bvlbancha Collective Provides mutual aid and information for Indigenous peoples.

Follow updated information on Instagram, @ bvlbanchacollective

houseoftulip.org

Second Harvest Food Bank

Catholic Charities is one of the oldest, largest nonprofit aid groups in the world.

House of Tulip provides services to the transgender and gender-nonconforming community in New Orleans.

Distributes immediate food assistance across south Louisiana.

Donate: https://bit.ly/3mW7UfU

Donate: houseoftulip.org/make-a-donation

Catholic Charities

catholiccharitiesusa.org

no-hunger.org

Donate: no-hunger.org/ida

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Ivy Barthelemy cooks BBQ for Louisiana Air National Guard members in Plaquemines Parish.

AID GROUPS OUTSIDE OF ORLEANS PARISH Jefferson Parish oxygen tanks program Jefferson Parish officials have set up two sites residents can get free oxygen tanks.

Down The Bayou Mutual Aid Fund instagram.com/dtb_mutualaidfund Operated by Caroline Guidry, describes itself as “No hoops to jump through, no middleman bullshit, just neighbors helping neighbors.”

Serving Lafourche communities.

Fire Station 81, 808 MacArthur Ave., Harvey Fire Station 20, 4110 Hudson St., Metairie

Donate: via Cashapp at $dtbmutualaidfund, via Venmo at @DTBMutualAidFund

Lost Bayou Ramblers instagram.com/p/CTQ2e4MrcEQ

St. Charles Parish Small Black Neighborhood Ida Relief

The legends of Lost Bayou Ramblers are collecting supplies for residents in Houma, Golden Meadow and the New Orleans area.

Thomjana’ Ferguson has started an effort to provide assistance to small black neighborhoods in St. Charles Parish.

Donate: via Paypal or Venmo at @nouveauelectric

Inclusive Louisiana

Donate: gofundme.com/f/ida-relief-for-smallblack-neighborhoods

Faithpointe Family Fellowship Anglican Relief An Anglican church in Covington providing food, showers and other support.

71429 Seeger Road, Covington (985) 801-9113

THERE ALSO ARE SEVERAL FIRST NATIONS IN SOUTEASTERN LOUISIANA WHOSE LANDS AND PEOPLE WERE HIT HARD BY IDA. United Houma Nation unitedhoumanation.org

Donate: unitedhoumanation.org/donate

Isle De Jean Charles Band of Biloxi Chitimacha Choctaw

facebook.com/InclusiveLA

Another Gulf Is Possible

isledejeancharles.com

Inclusive Louisiana describes its mission as “creat[ing] a fairer and more inclusive society and to protect the heavens and earth for the generations to come.” They are gathering supplies including generators.

anothergulf.com/ida/

Donate: isledejeancharles.com/donate

Donate: labucketbrigade.salsalabs.org/inclusivedonate/index.html

The Descendants Project thedescendantsproject.com

A “women-of-color led, grassroots collaborative” of organizations along the Gulf Coast. Its site includes a list of resources for Hurricane Ida response.

Donate: anothergulf.com/ida

RISE St. James facebook.com/risestjames

Gran Caillou/Dulac Band gcdbcc.org

Donate: gcdbcc.org/support

Pointe-Aux-Chien Indian Tribe pactribe.tripod.com

Donate: pactribe.tripod.com

The Descendants Project focuses on supporting the Black families and descendants of the River Parishes.

An environmental justice organization based in St James Parish.

Atakapa Ishak Tribe

Donate: via Venmo at @thedescendantsproject

Donate: secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=aYnMTV

Donate: atakapa-ishak.org

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SOUTH LOUISIANANS ARE GOING TO BE CLEANING UP from Hurricane Ida

for a while — and it’s going to cost money. From simple necessities like gas, food and a clean place to live to major rebuilding efforts such as roof replacement, financial assistance is critical.

Homeowners and renters in parishes affected by Ida — Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany and St. Bernard as well as Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville, Lafourche, Livingston, Plaquemines, Pointe Coupee, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Martin, St. Mary, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana parishes — can now apply for financial assistance from FEMA. Here’s the quick and dirty you need to know: Applications can be filed online anytime at disasterassistance.gov (which takes about 10 minutes), or by toll-free phone at (800) 621-3362 from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. everyday.

If you need in-person help, several recreation centers around New Orleans are offering help with FEMA paperwork: Gernon Brown Recreation Center, 1001 Harrison Ave.; Rosenwald Recreation Center, 1120 S. Broad Ave.; Lyons Recreation Center, 624 Louisiana Ave.; Milne Recreation Center, 5420 Franklin Ave.; Joe W. Brown Recreation Center, 5601 Read Blvd.; Cut Off Recreation Center, 6600 Belgrade

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St.; Stallings St. Claude Recreation Center, 4300 St. Claude Ave.; and Treme Recreation Center, 900 N. Villere St. Those locations are open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

First off, FEMA is offering onetime $500 emergency payments to households in need of help for critical things like water, food, fuel and medicine. Even if your home was relatively undamaged but you left due to the heat and power outage, you can still qualify. The deadline to apply for this was Sept. 12.

If your home is unlivable, you may be eligible for FEMA to cover the cost of a hotel through its Transitional Sheltering Assistance Program. After applying for assistance, FEMA will identify if you’re eligible for the program, and if you are, it’ll cover the cost of 30 days in a participating hotel room that you find and book. This doesn’t work retroactively before Sept.

2, but if you have receipts for hotel rooms it’s possible to try for reimbursement.

Renters may also be eligible for one month of expedited rental assistance if essential utilities (electricity and gas) are out or if their home is wrecked and they need to relocate. Further, renters may be eligible for grants to cover the additional costs of living in another apartment while their home is being repaired — things like security deposits, rent and gas and water bills.

Those grants won’t cover cable or internet. Expediated rental assistance also expired on Sept. 12.

Roofing contractors install what’s expected to be the first of about 70,000 temporary roofs on a home in New Orleans East on Wednesday, Sept. 8.

If you’re filing for assistance to repair your home or replace furniture and other property and have homeowners’ or renters’ insurance, you should file a claim with your insurance company first. FEMA can’t duplicate what is covered by insurance, but if you are uninsured or underinsured, you are eligible for federal assistance.

There also are other expenses applicants can apply for assistance with, including child-care, medical and dental, funeral and clean-up items like a dehumidifier.

If you have purchased a generator or a chainsaw between Aug. 26 and Sept. 25, you may be eligible for reimbursement — up to $800 for generators and up to $250 for chainsaws. You can file for that as well with your online or phone ap-

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plications. Have your receipts ready.

If your roof is wrecked or even if it’s just sprung a leak, you can get a blue tarp installed. Sign up at blueroof.us or by phone (888) 766-3258.

Further, Small Business Administration low-interest loans are also available. More information can be found at disasterloanassistance. sba.gov. The Deadline to apply for FEMA assistance is Oct. 28.

And watch out for scammers.

FEMA property inspectors will never ask for your nine-digit registration number; they will never charge a fee to inspect a property; and no official will ask for your financial assistance over the phone. If you think something is fishy, hang up and call (800) 621-3362.

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“Morning has broken like the first morning / Blackbird has spoken like the first bird / Praise for the singing, praise for the morning / Praise for them springing fresh from the world” Pointe Au Chens, LA.

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Hurricane Ida laid waste to much of our region and upended our homes and lives.

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But it could never change who we are.

In the CBD, volunteers from the World Central Kitchen and Culture Aid NOLA began serving food hours after Ida hit.

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Micheal the Realistic Mystic figured it was better to set up shop than suffer alone in the heat after Ida knocked out power to the city.

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And crews were soon getting to work, repairing the physical damage she caused.

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The national guard and federal agencies once again descended on the city to bring what help they could.

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Fuel lines stretched for blocks in the first few days after the storm.

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But all across the city, people were already helping each other, including in St. Roch.

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Even the smallest things like providing a working outlet were miracles.

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It seemed like everywhere you went, strangers were there, offering water or food.

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Because despite it all we remain unbowed.

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Seriously, so much good food.

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Lot 285: American Rococo Carved Mahogany Four Poster Bed, mid-19th c., H.- 90 in., Int. W.- 61 in., Int. D.- 75 1/2 in. Est. $800-$1,200

Lot 251: Clementine Hunter (1886– 1988, Louisiana), “Cotton Picking with African House,” c. 1965, oil on canvas board, H.- 17 1/2 in., W.- 23 1/2 in.

Est. $3,000-$5,000

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Lot 255: James Michalopoulos (1951-, Pennsylvania/New Orleans), “Noting Passion,” 2004, oil on canvas, signed lower left, also signed, titled and dated verso, H.- 40 in., W.- 29 3/4 in.

Est. $2,000-$4,000

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Lot 261: Clarence Millet (1897-1959, Louisiana), “Bayou Bridge,” 20th c., oil on panel, signed lower right, also titled and signed verso, H.- 15 in., W.- 18 in.

Est. $3,000-$5,000

Sunday, September 19th beginning at 10 am, Lots 451-809 Full color catalog available at:

www.crescentcityauctiongallery.com Lot 170: After Domenico Tintoretto (1560-1635), “The Penitent Magdalene,” 19th c., oil on board, H.- 24 1/2 in., W.- 18 1/2 in.

Lot 572: Large Patinated Bronze Est. $1,000-$2,000 Erotic Figural Garden Group, 20th c., of a seated Satyr and a nude woman, H.- 58 in., W.- 22 in., D.- 39 in.

Est. $500-$1,000

Lot 337: Roy Ferdinand (1959-2004, New Orleans), “Voodoo Priestess in a Cemetery,” 20th c., mixed media on paper, unsigned, H.- 27 in., W.- 21 in. Est. $1,000-$2,000

Lot 271: Newcomb College Art Pottery Moon and Moss Matte Glaze Baluster Vase, 1921, by Anna Frances Simpson, H.- 10 in., Dia.- 6 in.

Est. $4,500-$6,500

Lot 292: Chinese Carved Mixed Woods Canopy Bed, 19th c., with alcove, H.- 98 in., W.- 88 in., D.- 122 in., Interior Bed Chamber- H.- 60 in., W.- 78 in., D.- 50 1/2 in. Est. $2,500-$4,500

Lot 283: Antique Brass Inlaid Rosewood Baby Grand Erard Piano, 1871-1880, #43997, H.- 36 1/2 in., W.- 55 1/4 in., D.- 83 in. Est. $1,500-$2,500

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Loy 254: James Michalopoulos (1951- , Pennsylvania/New Orleans), “New Orleans Center Hall Cottage,” 1998, oil on canvas, signed lower left, signed and dated verso, H.- 27 3/4 in., W.- 21 3/4 in., Est. $4,000-$6,000

WATCH AND BID LIVE ONLINE FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME! Lot 252: John T. Scott (1940-2007, New Orleans/ Houston), Untitled, from “The Slum Series,” late 20th c., oil on canvas, signed lower right and verso, H.- 34 in., W.- 30 in.

Est. $4,000-$8,000

Lot 131: Dutch Carved Mahogany Cantilevered Cylinder Top Desk, 19th c., H.- 42 3/4 in., W.- 52 in., Closed D.- 26 1/4 in., Open D.- 34 in. Est. $600-$900

Lot 561: Pair of French Bronze and Alabaster Twelve Light Chandeliers, late 19th c., H.- 42 in., Dia.- 39 1/2 in. Est. $800-$1,200

Lots 59-60: Mario Villa (1953-2021, New Orleans), Iron and Brass Vanity and Stool, Matching Double Bed. and an Ebonized Iron and Brass Floor Lamp, Est- $800-$1,200, $800-$1,200, $500-$1,000.

Lot 250: Clementine Hunter (1886–1988, Louisiana), “Uncle Tom in the Garden with Little Eva,” c. 1965, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, H.- 17 1/4 in., W.- 23 1/4 in.

Est. $4,000-$8,000

Lot 186: Louis Charles Bombled (1862-1927, France), “Napoleon and French Calvary During the Russian Campaign in Winter,” late 19th/early 20th c., oil on canvas, signed lower left, H.- 19 1/4 in., W.- 27 1/4 in. Est. $1,000-$2,000

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Lot 1: Human Medical/Dental Skull, 20th c., H.- 7 1/2 in., W.- 5 in., D.- 8 in. Est. $600-$900

Lot 262: Noel Rockmore (1928-1995, New Orleans), “Stovall Son,” 1969, acrylic on masonite, signed, dated and titled upper right, with E. L. Borenstein Collection paperwork attached verso, H.- 12 3/4 in., W.- 7 in.

Est. $1,500-$2,500

Lot 214: French Provincial Louis Philippe Carved Mahogany Commode, 19th c., H.- 37 1/4 in., W.- 50 1/2 in., D.- 24 1/2 in. Est. $500-$900

Lot 158: Ninety-Two Piece Set of Sterling Flatware, by Reed and Barton, in the Francis I pattern, Wt.- 83.6 Troy Oz. Est. $3,000-$5,000