My brother-in-law recently spent a day wandering around the Ninth Ward in New Orleans and photographing the damage...I've been through a lot of the flooded areas and still hadn't seen anything like this up close. I know there have been plenty of topics on the hurricanes and tons of news coverage, but it's different (at least for me) seeing the destruction on the news and seeing snapshots that a family member took. Anyway, I just wanted to share these with y'all. Some of them really blew me away.
How Sobering. I find it really shocking to see how 6 months after Katrina so little has been done in so many devastated regions.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Yeah. I went to a concert down there a few weeks ago and I couldn't believe how much trash was still piled up, waiting to be hauled away.
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
Wow.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Oh, wow, thanks for sharing your BIL's photos.
Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
Thank you for sharing. That is very sobering.
Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :
Wow, powerful pictures, Avadaru. Thanks for sharing.
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One thing: while it's a terrible situation all around, I don't think it's all that surprising that "so little" has been done. I live on the island of Kauai, which was hit hard by hurricane Iniki in 1992, and it was somewhere in the neighborhood of five years before most of the debris was cleaned up. There is still a hotel standing here which was never reopened, and if I'm not mistaken, the area hit by the hurricane here was much smaller than the area that was hit by Katrina, and of course far less developed.
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