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 #1443966  by johnpbarlow
 
I know this query appears a bit insensitive to the likely millions of Harvey/Irma victims in the US but has there been any observable uptick in lumber/sheet rock/etc RR shipments to facilitate repairs to all the residential/commercial property damage in the southeast and Texas/Louisiana?
 #1443984  by F-line to Dudley via Park
 
Considering there's still whole neighborhoods of City of Houston sitting underwater and Irma is still an active extratropical low pressure system dumping buckets of rain on western Tennessee this weekend, it's still early by a matter of weeks for triaging building supplies. Cleanup's only begun. The only thing they're short on right this second on the Gulf Coast is plywood for boarding up the condemned buildings and patching broken windows in occupied buildings that won't be able to order replacement panes for a couple more weeks.