Would Have Been Me

Published: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 12:07 p.m. Houmatoday.com HOUMA — Hundreds of volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will join forces to help clean up Houma and Dulac Saturday. Right now, Mormon assessment crews are out in the community collecting orders of the work to be done to help the community clean up. Volunteers will gather at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center to parcel out work orders at 7 a.m. Saturday morning, and then will head out into the community to clean up. The Mormons had mobilized a work force and scheduled truckloads of cleaning supplies for the area, but these plans were scuttled in the face of Hurricane Ike. Some of the work anticipated includes removing mud from homes and debris from properties, placing tarps on roofs and providing other relief efforts as needed. The Mormons have dispatched around 20 semi-truck loads of supplies to the Gulf area generally this hurricane season and will be sending more to arrive for the relief efforts on Friday.