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Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Nine Months After Katrina Photo AlbumNow, Nine Month After Katrina I Revisit New Orleans for the first time since Katrina devastated the area. I visit the hardest hit area of the 9th ward and see that for New Orleans, Katrina might has been a month ago. The area is destroyed. I also went back around to see how various areas that I video taped during the storm look now. 2 Nine Months Later... The Bus Is Still There. A few bullet holes in the windows and 2 flat tires but it is still there. 3 Another photograph down memory lane. I shot this same area in the Hurricane Katrina DVD while in the flooding and now seeing how it looks dry was really strange. 4 Stray dogs are everywhere. Here is one that came up to me but I dared not get too close as it was covered in ticks. 5 The North Robinson Overpass is now a junk yard. Thousands of cars go on for miles just left to rot until someone comes to take them away for scrap. 9 From what looked like junk cars before the storm to top of the line rides, all cars in the water were destroyed. 13 An overhead photograph of all the cars that keep going on and on that are waiting to be hauled off for scrap. 14 Every building that has not been repainted in the city has an X with when it was searched, by who, and what was found. 15 Another mark on a building. Kind of reminds me of the mark on the door in another book I read once... 16 The Trash Is Everywhere. With the trash, comes the rats. I saw a ton of rats all over the city, in and around the downtown area and areas next to downtown and the french quarter. 18 A FEMA trailer parked next to a boat. If the city floods again, there will be thousands of trailers floating but at least they have a boat... 19 In the 9th Ward. Someone wrote HELL then changed it to HELLP, or they can't spell. But then below that, in the FEMA orange paint they wrote "Me Spell" . 20 This building is now leaning over and ready to fall in on itself. This is the state of a lot of the buildings in the 9th ward. 21 Home Sweet Home, Only In America. No I did not move or place the flag there. It was on the ground right where I found it. 22 Another image looking back towards downtown New Orleans from the lower 9th ward. Everything is just destoryed by Katrina. 23 The lower 9th ward is a ghost town with car's everywhere that were pushed around by the flood and destroyed. 24 Here are a couple of photographs of homes destroyed in the lower 9th ward. Everything is just smashed by the power of hurricane katrinas storm surge once it broke the levees. 26 The sign can not even begin to describe the danger that is all over the area and even in the air with the mold and funk floating around. 28 There are a lot of homes on top of car's in the lower 9th ward. It is just mind blowing but shows the power of water. 30 A close up of the SUV stuck between two houses in the lower 9th ward. The SUV is wedged in adn looks like it would have to come out through one of the houses. 32 The power of water. Another home crushing a car after the flood waters were gone from Hurricane Katrina. 33 Now seeing this really says it all, the truck was off the road, but the house was on the road. 41 The flags all over the area were remarkable. After all the destruction, the flags were still hanging up. 45 Here you can see the ring as the water settled for a while to stain the house. Everything in the city that was affected by the flooding has this ring round it. 54 What was once an area of several homes, it is wiped clean of the homes and only debris and flipped cars remain. 57 This truck is on Jack Stands and looks like it was being worked on before the storm. Now it just sits and waits to be hauled off. 59 Peoples belongings are everywhere on the ground but I would not even dare touching them. Not for the looting but everything is covered in a funk. After I got done in the 9th ward, I left my shoes in New Orleans. 61 Looking back towards downtown New Orleans from the lower 9th ward. This is where someone's house once stood. All that is there now is the front steps and a pile of debris that was once a neighborhood. 62 I saw this as I moved more towards the east. A boat that could have saved people now just sits on it's side waiting to be hauled off as trash. 64 Ok, this image is just classic. As I moved further east, It shows after all the hell the people in Arabi have gone through, they can still vent with spray paint on this house that is sitting in the middle of the road. Check out the wicked witch on the right. 66 Another home in the road and a boat that was salvaged. At least the trash problem in the Arabi area was not as bad as it was in the New Orleans core area. But I did find out while back at my hotel and watching the New Orleans Cable Access TV that the trash is being picked up but people keep dumping their trash when it is not their trash pick up days. So for tourist like me, if I did not see that on TV, I would have thought that nothing was done at all since August 29th, 2005. |
