re: People throwing away perfectly good stuff

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I understand that it seems gross but we throw raw meat and other stuff in them that is just as bad or worse without thinking twice.

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I wouldn't eat or eat off of anything that looked and smelled like raw sewage water. The water where you live may have been different from what I'm talking about. I gutted multiple homes, and the worst water was in Denham. It was far worse than any in BR as far as smell, color, and consistency go. I told the BR people to keep a lot of that stuff, but I told the Denham people to toss it unless they really wanted it. And Denham is where I've seen the most stuff being thrown out

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I'll have them sandblasted most likely and then reseason them.

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That is a waste...no pun. That will not disinfect them in the least. Just steel wool and heat the heck out of them...then season.

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throwing out all sorts of salvageable stuff because he was overwhelmed with it all.

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That's how I felt. I knew I had so much work ahead of me that I just didn't fret over too much.

The thing that irks me most, though, are the people who are still being protective of their trash. I'm not talking about those who haven't had adjusters look at their losses yet, but those who just feel "violated" because of pickers looking through their shite for something salvageable. The Facebook group for my neighborhood is posting photos of "suspicious vehicles" because they grabbed a solid wood desk from somebody's pile, calling the police over it, etc. They aren't even being disrespectful by leaving debris in the street. They're just doing drive-by glances and taking whatever catches their eye. Why would people rather see it go to a landfill?

I don't care what they take from my pile. Just don't go past the driveway and don't leave anything in the street. shite, if any of you have a hunting camp that needs refurnishing, just come here to north woods subdivision and get you some cabinets, dressers, and solid wood dining tables.

sure you can

boil more crawfish.

cleans it perfect

Baking pans that had dirty water sitting in them for a few days & now have rust on them are not worth the time to scrub & disinfect.
It took 5 different times of disinfecting, scouring & washing pots to get them clean.
I am still cleaning other items that cost a lot more than cookie sheets.
Some items aren't worth the trouble & yes, it's easy to throw away stuff when you are overwhelmed.

That is dumb.

Perhaps, because in my case, it sat in 6' feet of water and in raw sewage for 3 days. We salvaged a fair amount of stainless steel pots and pans and such, but after dealing with the gravity of the situation it became easier to just toss it and start over.

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I wouldn't eat or eat off of anything that looked and smelled like raw sewage water

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This right here. You feel violated and don't want that in your house anymore. We would rather just buy a new set than have to remember what was in there.

Hook up a flat bed and go make some money

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Saw a sign in Denham the other day. Said something along the lines of "My tragedy is not your treasure. please don't take" This was spray painted on a door in a trash pile on the side of Floriday Blvd.

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To be fair....I know some people were still waiting for a FEMA inspection and didn't want stuff taken in case FEMA needs to photograph it for the inspection. At least that is what my friend was telling me when I was in BR.