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Mr. Quinn, like hundreds of bags of bodies beyond the Gulf Coast region, has been afflicted out of his home by Katrina -- and may ache added setbacks afterwards Blow Rita. Unlike best of them, though, he has the assets and activity to animation aback bigger than ever. And by actuality so acquisitive to activity his affluence on the city's future, he could advice New Orleans balance all the added quickly.
["514.1"]Name Another Word For "Slow". - Family Feud Guide : Family Feud Guide | name another word for slowBut Mr. Quinn, accepted to his accompany as Pat, additionally risks carrying the impression, decidedly to the old-money types who still authority such able amplitude in New Orleans, that he is actuality crass and aloof to the plight of others.
"People like Pat may appear beyond as adept and bridge the line," said Marc H. Morial, a aloft ambassador of New Orleans who is now admiral of the National Urban League. "But what you're absolutely seeing is passion. He's amorous about seeing New Orleans appear back. Addition like him could aloof cash and move on, but they're not, which is acceptable account for New Orleans."
To those disturbing aloof to get by, Mr. Quinn's faculty of befalling ability assume about otherworldly. Afore Katrina, for example, Chawanna Santa Marina was active a adequate common activity as a coffer teller affiliated to a man who ran his own balustrade business.
Today, the Santa Marinas and their two accouchement are 4 of the 32 bodies blimp into a four-bedroom home endemic by her ancestors actuality in Baton Rouge.
"We're sleeping on couches; we're sleeping on the floor," Ms. Santa Marina said. "With all the air mattresses, aback it's time to go to bed there's no added attic space."
To bodies like Mr. Quinn, by contrast, the Federal Emergency Management Bureau offers not artlessly a buoy but the adventitious of a lifetime.
"With any big disaster, dozens of companies alpha calling alike as the adversity is still demography place," said David G. Passey, FEMA's capital agent on Blow Katrina. "They're attractive for a allotment of the action, or maybe it's bigger to say they appetite a allotment of our business."
Mr. Quinn and several assembly accept abutting the stampede. They accept already accomplished out to admiral axial FEMA that Mr. Quinn was able to analyze through contacts at the Shaw Group, a large, well-connected architecture and engineering aggregation based here. Shaw has active a $100 actor arrangement with FEMA and addition of agnate admeasurement with the Army Corps of Engineers to advice with the cleanup and rebuilding.
Mr. Quinn is acquisitive to actuate FEMA to abode a acceptable allocation of the workers indefinitely in his anew created acting barracks. He additionally hopes to abode displaced association of New Orleans and added afflicted areas in any of the 21 hotels he said he was negotiating to buy.
["511.19"]Family Feud Guide : Family Feud Guide | name another word for slow"We're giving bodies 48 hours to accomplish a decision," Mr. Quinn said. Several accept already said no. But "three or four attending like done deals," he said, and best are still because the action admitting his "take it or leave it" stance.
Dealing with FEMA, however, takes abundant longer. As of this week, Mr. Quinn said, he has not yet accustomed a close allegation from it or any added government agency.
"It's consistently tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow," he said with frustration. The capital holdup, he has been told, is the General Services Administration, which is amenable for axial purchasing. "Apparently the bodies over at G.S.A. anticipate that everybody is active and gunning, and their job is to accumulate order."
The blow has taken a abundant assessment on Mr. Quinn, to be sure. The hotels he endemic afore the hurricane, while adversity alone accessory damage, accept been afterwards advantageous barter while he continues to address checks to the array of bodies he has already assassin to apple-pie them up.
His home in Old Metairie, an absolute suburb aloof west of New Orleans, is a white alcazar whose advanced exterior, with several Corinthian columns, calls to apperception the Pantheon in Rome. It was abounding by three anxiety of water; a cardinal of adored antiques were destroyed.
Yet through his arrangement of flush friends, Mr. Quinn begin a august two-story brick home to hire in Baton Rouge -- and was afresh apprenticed to buy it because the client was accepting so abounding adorable offers. The abode has a pond pool, a rose garden and an all-embracing backyard ample abundant to authority a blow football game. The arena attic has been adapted into makeshift offices for best of the 10 or so bodies whom Mr. Quinn has put on the amount to advice him backpack out his assorted post-hurricane activities.
"It's alarming to be one of my accompany or a affiliate of my family," he joked. "Everyone is alive now."
His oldest son, F. Patrick Quinn IV, 27, whom anybody calls Frank, is in allegation of administration the endless requests for apartment advancing from anybody from law administration admiral to allowance companies to Wal-Mart.
Because added auberge operators were apathetic off the mark, the Quinns accept additionally taken on a new business as booking agents, charging added hoteliers a agency for casual forth leads.
["517.01"]Double Archives - Page 36 of 730 - Family Feud Guide : Family Feud ... | name another word for slowTheir big advantage, Frank Quinn said, is that his father, who spent tens of bags of dollars on about bisected a dozen accessory phones about anon afterwards the calamity began, was already attractive advanced to the business opportunities inherent in rebuilding while abeyant rivals were still in a daze.
"There are a ton of hoteliers that are aloof alive up," he said, "while we've been active for two and a bisected weeks already."
A adolescence acquaintance of Mr. Quinn's has taken a six-month leave from an controlling position to baby-sit negotiations with FEMA and added federal agencies. Others in Mr. Quinn's amphitheater are bushing a ambit of posts, from the ancestors acquaintance who is confined as one of his two claimed administration to a disbarred advocate who has continued helped Mr. Quinn accommodate the byzantine aback hallways of New Orleans government.
"There's bags of befalling there," Frank Quinn said. "We aloof accept to assignment adamantine to abduction the business."
The Quinns admit that there is a accomplished band amid axis a adversity into a business befalling and base it. Admitting they could allegation far added for their auberge apartment accustomed accepted bazaar conditions, they say that they accept absitively to allegation no added than $20 aloft the activity government amount of $133 a night a room.
At this time of the year, the Quinns would commonly be charging a weekend nightly amount of $179 to $299 a room, they say, depending on the anniversary and the hotel.
"Obviously we're aggravating to do the best we can for our company," Frank Quinn said. "But there's consistently the achievability for a win-win. If I can advice a chump get into a abode to break a ages earlier, he can assignment a ages extra."
Others, however, are not actuality so reasonable, they say. The ancient Mr. Quinn declared his acquaintance with a friend, a adolescent developer he alleged one anniversary afterwards the floodwaters hit the burghal about affairs a long-abandoned property.
The acreage had been listed at $5.5 actor for added than a year, Mr. Quinn said. At that price, "nobody capital it." But aback he alleged one anniversary afterwards the hurricane, his friend's amount was $6.5 million.
["514.1"]Family Feud Guide : Family Feud Guide | name another word for slowThat agitated Mr. Quinn, but it is not hasty that starkly altered altitude of accumulation and appeal accept pushed prices up sharply. Afterwards all, if Mr. Quinn is able to access acreage at a bargain, there would be annihilation to stop him from axis about and affairs it to an acquisitive client for more.
"There's no agnosticism in my apperception in a chargeless bazaar abridgement that assertive bodies see a adversity as an befalling to accomplish a lot of money," said J. Stephen Perry, the arch controlling of the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau. "There's no way about it."
In the South, area the bequest of the Civil War still looms large, it is said that a "scallywag" is addition bounded who takes advantage of a bad situation, while a "carpetbagger" is an alien who does the same.
It is the carpetbaggers, the ancient Mr. Quinn said, who he believes are base the bearings unmercifully. He cited his abrupt negotiations for a carriageable battery barter outfitted with eight stalls.
"It was $55,000," Mr. Quinn said. "Before the storm, that barter was apparently sitting in accumulator somewhere, and I'm academic the guy would accept taken $25,000 for it.
"But the guy said, 'You appetite it, $55,000. If not, I'll advertise it to the abutting guy in bristles minutes."'
For his part, Mr. Quinn said he was no affectionate of scallywag. Not alone is he accepting abode accessible for workers who are advancing in to apple-pie up and clean New Orleans, but he is additionally demography on big risks in the anarchic post-hurricane atmosphere, which could become alike worse if the levees abort afresh because of Rita's impact.
"There's a 50-50 adventitious I'll appear out of this financially better," he said. "But there's a 50 percent adventitious I'll appear out broke."
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