Six years ago on August 29th I sat in the same room I wrote this, listening to the wind howl outside. The wind here was strong. Across Mobile windows broke. Limbs fell. Trees uprooted. Homes flooded. Less than fifty miles west the unceasing tide rose, pushing inland without remorse. Nature has no remorse. It has...
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At 5:10 AM on August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made its second landfall on American soil near Buras, Louisiana, obliterating almost everything in its wake, from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama. Five years later we’re still recovering. You’ve probably been inundated with Katrina memorials, specials, and documentaries this past week. The media (and many regular...
For so many people in New Orleans, the road home has been long and difficult. In almost every neighborhood in town you’ll find blighted, hollow shells of former homes. Some still have markings from Katrina search crews. It’s not unusual to find gutted, empty buildings standing next door to beautiful new homes. Good neighbors take...
So in July 2010 I was back in New Orleans for a conference, and I took a little time to grab shots of Canal Street in the CBD and a couple down New Orleans Avenue in Mid-City. You can definitely see progress downtown, and it looks like a lot of the roadwork is being done...
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...