When I first moved back to New Orleans in June 2006 I drove through some of the worst-flooded parts of town: Lakeshore, Gentilly, and Chalmette. Over the course of the next week I’ll be offering a selection of photos from the last 5 years in New Orleans. Below: Residents on Filmore Avenue offer their take...
Hurricane Katrina | New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast | Photos Taken Between 2006 and 2008
I originally posted this back in February, but I decided to rewrite it and publish it on Earth Day. I’m not a scientist, and I can’t tell you anything about global warming except that it seems to be occurring, regardless of the cause. What I do know is that the management of natural resources can...
This is the last blog I’m writing from New Orleans. I have a few scheduled for the coming days because I’ll be trying to move things to Mobile then to Fort Worth, and I’m not sure how often I’ll be able to post. Today is one day shy of fulfilling my second full year in...
Two years ago I packed up a few of my things and drove to my parents’ home in Mobile, Alabama. At the time, New Orleans had issued a voluntary evacuation; NOBTS issued a mandatory evacuation. Two days later, Hurricane Katrina pushed onshore as a category 3 hurricane. It was something I’d been through before. A...
