New Orleans...

[keving54]

Hello,

I was scheduled to go there Thursday - I've had many great vacations there. Can't help but think this may be the 'end' of New Orleans as we know it, for a long time. Such a great and unique place, unlike any other major Amercan city. Right now I'm watching the tv watching N.O. fill with water...Well, I pray and hope for the best for all the people in danger and those affected.
Here's a few shots I've taken in the past...
Regards,
Kevin

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[JamesJWeg]

Good shots, I might be wrong but I feel that the big-easy will recover quickly, the people there are just plain tough under that easy going cover.

James.

[keving54]

Good shots, I might be wrong but I feel that the big-easy will recover quickly, the people there are just plain tough under that easy going cover.

James.
I really hope you're right. But the news just keeps getting bleaker. I'm afraid it may be months before they can drain it and allow people to return.

Kevin

[ChrisJ]

Good shots, I might be wrong but I feel that the big-easy will recover quickly, the people there are just plain tough under that easy going cover.

James. My sister-in-law and her husband no longer have jobs or a place to live... They're going to move away, at least for a while anyway. Not a lot of fun living in a quagmire. :cry

http://chrisandjoy.smugmug.com/photos/34212277-L.jpg

[ginger_55]

I don't think it will ever recover. I think the living spaces will return, but New Orleans, the Big Easy, I think it is gone.

And I hope I am wrong. I mean that wonderful cemetery photo, how could that place come back.

The people who survive will go on, jobs will be had somewhere and eventually in New Orleans, etc...........

I just hope they don't turn it into a Disney type reproduction of New Orleans.

I think this is just about the worst thing I have ever seen.

A hurricane changed my life, changed where I live, the same place, even some of the same buildings, but it is not as it was. And the damage, though major, it pales as compared to this.

ginger

Sorry, I just feel so sad about it. As they say, the only constant is change.

Also, too much bldg on the coast, just too much, and how many times have I said that. Felt surreal taking bird photos at my beautiful SE ocean yesterday, while knowing.............. and fearing.

And the climate, how many more places??? The amt of heat in the ocean right now, and next year....

OK, gotta let my husband use the PC

[Andy]

so sad.
some snapshots from when i was there in early 2003

http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/1108236-M.jpg

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[ginger_55]

Thank you for sharing those photos, Andy. Nice, very nice. Were there street performers, too? How was the jazz, for which New Orleans was famous, and always will be? I am sure there was the food. And there will be that again.

ginger

[gtc]

i must say that i was shocked at the extent of devastaion-at first I thought "another hurricane" but this is is a shocker-i always wanted to go there-it seemed to be one of the more interesting US cities.

[Andy]

I am sure there was the food.


ginger, you can bet on that and always win :lol3

steaks at emeril's in nawlins
http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/1108240-M-1.jpg

2am, bourbon street, they try to get you to come in with any trick:

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[Thwack]

I have family and friends all over that area. They've had some odd weather for a while now. Here's a picture I took in Metairie on Christmas Day last year. Metairie is directly west of New Orleans, right along the southern edge of Lake Ponchatrain.

http://thwack.smugmug.com/photos/13312978-M.jpg


That shot were taken at my mother-in-law's house which is a mile or so west of one of the broken levees. From studying satellite pictures of her area, it looks like it stayed reasonably dry. That levee broke on the east side and the flood spread away from her place.

Unfortunately, the parents of my roommate from college live a couple blocks downstream from one of the other places a levee broke. They have water at least in the first floor of their house...clearly visible in the satellite pics.

Thanks for the great pics in this thread. It's rare to see a dry shot of New Orleans lately...

[PatandRich]

Betiful images. I am not normally a big fan of IR but the first image is stunning

Unfortunately I think Ginger is correct when it gets back on it's feet there will be a Disney Store, Buger King and a ESPN Zone in the French Quarter.
It will fall like Time Square and Las Vagus and become corporate's version of a torist attraction and lose the ture flavor and life of the City. It is sadder here because it will be quicker and there is too much suffering involved.
I started traveling in the military in the late 60's and I always loved local flavor now the US has become homogenized and local flare has been replaced with Applebee's.
I may not like okra, black eyed peas or cat fish they were not to be found home in New York City but it was travel and grow. Now it is travel and snore:rolleyes