I wrote the following very early in the nighttime morning of Saturday, August 27, 2005. It went live at 4:14 AM, about the time this post should go live, five years later. It was a lesson I needed to learn, a life-altering moment. Looking back on the events nobody saw coming, I see much of...
Category Archives: New Orleans
If you drive through the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans today, the scene looks similar to 2007 and 2008, when I took the photos below. The Milne Boys Home (top left) is still hollow, with plans for renovation scheduled sometime in the next year or two. Gentilly struggled to rebuild as much as any neighborhood...
October 2006: The city lights shine bright at 11PM as we sneak photos from Algiers Point Levee on the West Bank. The City that Care Forgot became the City that Volunteers Rebuilt. While the Central Business District and French Quarter were quickly returning to pre-Katrina normalcy, the rest of the town remained dark. Crime increased...
In September 2006 my friend Blaize and I went over to Paris Avenue near our church gathering place and took photos of the dead trees lining the street. On the left you can see the eerie scene, straight out of a horror show. Empty. Dead. The city ripped up the trees several months later. Last...
Mississippi and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. My friend and I drove along the Gulf Coast first in February 2006 to survey our hometowns of Long Beach and Escatawpa, Mississippi. Below: a house on the waterfront in Long Beach (top left), the remnants of the Treasure Bay Casino in Gulfport (top middle), and a storage...