Yes I agree, there are a lot of people who do not have anything left after the storm and are still living in shelters, I am very grateful to still have a home that is liveable.
I have been climbing in the live oaks around my house lately, I first started getting involved with this by needing something to get in the tree to cut some broken limbs down that were still hanging over the house (we are not safe down here until the end of hurricane season).
Of course being myself I like to do everything myself for experience and to save money, and realized just how much I liked to "hang around".
I started out military style with a rope made harness (good for repelling only, it hurts to put any weight for any real time on it), then started searching around and found a real good harness that I now have the Petzyl mini-boss, after the rope harness and then this was totally amazing, I can sit in this harness all day. While taken care of the broken limbs I noticed my sons full of excitement watching me so I ordered them a harness from NewTribe and they love it, I havn't let them set the lines yet, but at this point they just love to go up and down in the trees.
My wife and I have created a family album site at www.fotki.com/gigglesnmobile2 you can go there to see what my kids and I have done and some pictures of the damage we got.