Latest word from Brad Pitt’s eco-friendly housebuilding project in New Orleans (see my earlier post here) is that the homes being built in the Lower 9th Ward will be elevated. You can read the blurb in the Times here. Or you can just go to his foundation page, Make It Right.

An international team of 13 architectural firms has submitted designs for the single-family homes, the first of which could be finished by May 2008. The new homes will be elevated to withstand future floods.

He is a man after my own heart – it is called The Pink Project. Anyone who has ever read my personal blog (now in its third year) knows that pink is my signature color! You can read more about The Pink Project concept here.

I hope you are drying out and didn’t suffer too much property damage. Our new townhome in HP is warm and dry (the bottom floor is set into a hillside below ground but no sign of water intrusion). High Point Pond is doing its job of slowing runoff headed down to Longfellow Creek (which overflowed its banks and flooded homes in the Delridge neighborhood).