Volunteers turn out where Katrina struck By Adrienne P. Samuels, Globe Staff | March 13, 2006
GULFPORT, Miss. -- It took Willis Moody nine months to build the old wooden house that a small army of Massachusetts volunteers had torn down in a half-day.
Hurricane Katrina had started on the demolition job seven months ago, by depositing a 100-year-old oak tree on Moody's roof, almost collapsing the structure, and exposing the inside to torrential rains and wind and, later, deadly mold.
Moody, 86, a master carpenter, a World War II veteran, and a cancer patient, was in no position to rebuild.
So his children called for help from a pastor, trying to help elderly hurricane survivors. That pastor, in turn, called on
And help they did. People arrived last week with hammers, shovels, rakes, spare nails, crowbars, and electric saws. The 40 men and the two women dug the foundations, set the walls, put up the siding, and installed the roofs.
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