If you’re skilled in the building trades, then Katrina victims could use your help, says a Journal-World reporter who recently helped with cleanup in two Mississippi towns.

“There is plenty to do for unskilled people (or those who are willing to be trained). But we ran into a lot of people who needed their houses rewired, or who needed plumbing work done,” Terry Rombeck wrote during an online chat with J-W readers Monday afternoon.

“At some point, I think there will be a bottleneck for that sort of work. Also, there are plenty of people down there who can’t afford that skilled labor. We met one lady on Social Security who needed $6,000 to rewire her house, and she flat didn’t have it,” Rombeck said.

Rombeck’s stories on his experiences in Hancock County, Miss., appeared in Monday’s J-W and Sunday on 6News.

To see the chat transcript and see his multimedia report, go to http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/jun/12/healing_after_hurricane/?city_local.