By Alabama Public Radio
Mobile, AL – Historic buildings along the coastlines of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana will be surveyed beginning next week. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is sending survey teams to those areas to save thousands of historic buildings damaged during Hurricane Katrina. President Richard Moe says there are about 37-thousand historic structures just in New Orleans. He says as many as two-thirds of them suffered wind or water damage or both. Moe also has asked Governor Bob Riley, the governors of Mississippi and Louisiana, and other officials not to make any demolition decisions until the survey teams are done.