Share 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...
Share 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...
Share 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...
Share 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...
Share 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...
