[Cob] cob maybe cob after Katrina is good.

[Amanda Peck]

Stories have been turning up about standard building materials going up in 
price after Katrina.  This one is about plywood.  After a report on another 
list that OSB was going to unavailable for months--at least in one town in 
Idaho (same story as a couple of years ago when tons were going to 
Iraq--this time with Katrina plants may be down).

You can follow the link if you want to read more.  The story does not 
consider this a horrible thing.

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/32479/story.htm

US reconstruction efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have begun to 
snap Brazil's wood export industry out of its worst crisis in decades.
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Brazilian plywoods account for 40 percent of the Eastern US market. Pine 
plywood -- a basic material of the US housing market -- rose 15 percent in 
the past week and a half to more than $230 a cubic meter in Brazil's 
southern ports, the Brazilian Wood Industry Association (Abimci) said.