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On March 15th my husband and I finally gathered the courage to make a trip down into the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood.
The Lower 9 is, in general, a poorer neighborhood. It is rich in history and character though. This is the neighborhood where the Mardi Gras Indians live and march. It is the home of Fats Domino, who despite his fame and fortune, still resided in his original meager home, now destroyed.
It is the place you saw again and again on the news. This was the main neighborhood filmed for the news. The place where the Industrial Canal broke and washed away homes and flooded the homes up to the rafters. The place where people begged for their lives on rooftops and eventually where the helicopters swooped in to air lift people out.
This place is less then 2 miles from my home.
Today it is a wasteland. There is no birdsong. The only noise there is the buzzing of flies, the sound of heavy machines as the demolition starts and occasionally the bark of a cadaver dog as it searches for bodies.
On March 15, the day these pictures were taken and I was there, 2 bodies were found. A few days later 3 more were found on one of the very streets I walked down while taking these pictures. They are averaging 1-2 bodies found a day. This is 7 months after the flooding.
I only saw 1 animal while down there. A cat, who you will see in the pictures, who refused to be caught (I left food and water for her). I heard a Rooster crowing a few blocks away and tried to locate it but as I neared the area it stopped crowing and I couldn't find it.
These pictures can be disturbing. There are many pictures of houses marked as containing bodies and the destruction is horrible.
Keep in mind that these are homes that people loved. Places where births were celebrated and arguments fought. A neighborhood once known for bubbling with life is now a graveyard of rubble.
Please don't forget New Orleans. We are far from okay down here.
https://flickr.com/photos/lgmaistros/sets/72057594083097751/
The Lower 9 is, in general, a poorer neighborhood. It is rich in history and character though. This is the neighborhood where the Mardi Gras Indians live and march. It is the home of Fats Domino, who despite his fame and fortune, still resided in his original meager home, now destroyed.
It is the place you saw again and again on the news. This was the main neighborhood filmed for the news. The place where the Industrial Canal broke and washed away homes and flooded the homes up to the rafters. The place where people begged for their lives on rooftops and eventually where the helicopters swooped in to air lift people out.
This place is less then 2 miles from my home.
Today it is a wasteland. There is no birdsong. The only noise there is the buzzing of flies, the sound of heavy machines as the demolition starts and occasionally the bark of a cadaver dog as it searches for bodies.
On March 15, the day these pictures were taken and I was there, 2 bodies were found. A few days later 3 more were found on one of the very streets I walked down while taking these pictures. They are averaging 1-2 bodies found a day. This is 7 months after the flooding.
I only saw 1 animal while down there. A cat, who you will see in the pictures, who refused to be caught (I left food and water for her). I heard a Rooster crowing a few blocks away and tried to locate it but as I neared the area it stopped crowing and I couldn't find it.
These pictures can be disturbing. There are many pictures of houses marked as containing bodies and the destruction is horrible.
Keep in mind that these are homes that people loved. Places where births were celebrated and arguments fought. A neighborhood once known for bubbling with life is now a graveyard of rubble.
Please don't forget New Orleans. We are far from okay down here.
https://flickr.com/photos/lgmaistros/sets/72057594083097751/