new orleans 2006
 
 
...but then on our way out, we received a shock. In front of us, on the other side of the 9th Ward, was... well, you’ll see. Let’s just say, the “No Bulldozing” signs seemed a little unrealistic. Nature had done that for them.
 
Is it coincidence that the hardest-hit places were those with the highest crime rates? Some of the houses had beautiful details, but it must have been scary to live there pre-Katrina due to the difficult conditions there.
 
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we thought we’d seen the worst...
Some houses lost a roof. This one lost everything else.
House of cards.
No glass left here.
It WAS a car.
General destruction.
The pole didn’t smash into the house. The house smashed into the pole.
A new invention: the house-truck.
Not going very far very fast in this direction.
There were houses here not long ago.
All that’s left is...
once again, the roof.
No efforts to recover household items here
Kindling, scrap metal and tall grass.
More destruction.
It was even quieter here...
except for the other sightseers driving around.
There weren’t too many on this Easter Sunday.
This area used to be packed with houses.
So little left.
Another perspective.
More kindling.
A downed tree, and a downed house.
Cars are NOT supposed to be upside down.
Or piled like this.
Or like this.
Again, brick homes fared much better, though not well.
Very pretty stained glass windows in this one.
Houses aren’t supposed to turn upside down, either.
Car graveyard.
Another one. Abandoned cars constitute a real problem for the city.
The drawbridge is in view here.
What is left to say?
Two houses kissing. Also not supposed to happen.
Note the face-down TV and, further inside, the salon-style hair dryer.
Interesting brick pattern here.
Outside a defunct church; this passage was read Passover Saturday.
More of the church.
We tried to head home again, then saw part of a house erupting in the air.
More parts of the same house.
Another piece of that house on top of the other two.
Final pieces of the house.
It had migrated partly into the street.
From the bridge. Where, exactly, are the levees???
 
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