Katrina............One year later

Posted by john in la on August 21, 2006 at 01:08:30 from (72.150.56.150):

While I do not want to open old wounds or hash out; If they should rebuild; I wanted to share what I saw today while taking a nice Sunday drive and checking out how the rebuilding is coming along in the area since it has been a year that the storm has past.

The Mississippi gulf coast was devastated and every thing for the first 3 or 4 blocks along the gulf was totaled. All of this area has for the most part been cleaned up and these people will rebuild.
Everyone thought that Camille in 1969 with its 200+ mph winds was the worse storm but I can tell you there are buildings that with stood Camille that are gone now.

New Orleans on the other hand is a different story. While many are rebuilding some of the harder hit areas will most likely never be the same and this is probably for the best.
(Remember these pictures were taken today one year after the storm)
Parts of the city are still abandoned because people have moved on and started a life elsewhere.
picture 1
Some houses still bear the dreaded X where the army came through checking for dead bodies.
picture 2
To get a idea of how deep the water was in this area here is a picture of a house with a refrigerator on its roof.
picture 3
And the closest boat dock from this shrimp boat is about 5 miles away.
picture 4
The city has set dead lines for removing the trash because some will never return and they need to get the streets cleared out.
picture 5
picture 6
Yes that house is in the middle of the road and you can see where it came from. About 750 ft in the distance.
picture 7
But others are rebuilding. Some are even taking the right approach and building the house above sea level even though the land is not.
picture 8

After driving around today it reminded me how a ghost town of the old west must have looked. Many business like Wal-Mart and Home Depot are still closed.

Replies:

• Re: Katrina............One year later Harlan Kruger 12:20:49 08/21/06 (3)
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  • Re: Katrina............One year later Fred Gwynne 15:25:06 08/21/06 (1)
    • Re: Katrina............One year later trw 20:07:27 08/21/06 (0)
• living danger's path rick YYC 07:54:38 08/21/06 (0)
• Re: Katrina............One year later rgvtx 07:01:48 08/21/06 (0)
• Re: Katrina............One year later Midwest redneck 02:39:44 08/21/06 (2)
  • Re: Katrina............One year later john in la 08:18:40 08/21/06 (0)
  • Re: Katrina............One year later JDknut 03:34:53 08/21/06 (0)

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