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October 25, 2005
Back to New Orleans. . .
I was in the middle of a series of posts about my trip back to New Orleans when the Taliban Bodies story burst onto the scene. However, I promised family and friends that I'd get the pictures and video of the trip posted, so I'm getting back to that.
The following are pictures of the Reed Blvd. house that my family owned when I was a very young child. How young? Well, young enough to get my head stuck in the rungs of the stairwell banister. The house is about half a block from Chef Menteur Hwy.
The new residents of the house obviously stayed in place until New Orleans East flooded, then they, like almost everyone else, abandoned the area, leaving it to the floods. They probably fared ok, given that the Reed Blvd. house is the only two story structure for blocks. Although being a two story building surrounded by lower lying structures meant that the roof didn't fare so well. The house was cleared and later notice from the ASPCA indicated that they (the ASPCA) returned to retrieve pets and relocated the animals to a safe location.
Now notice the lawn. It's dead. That's to be expected from the submergence in brackish storm water, so it's nothing to be to concerned about, but it's worth noting because when I arrived at the Reed Blvd house I began to notice something. EVERYTHING IS DYING. Even the insects seemed to be gone. One would expect that the mosquitos and roaches and flies would be evident in large numbers in post-Katrina N.O. (after all they were very prevalent in the area beforehand, and the month long reprieve they received from abatement measures should have forced their populations to explode) but they simply just weren't there.
I know that N.O. is slowly coming back to life and people are beginning to re-inhabit the city, but on that day, the day after the city was re-opened to civilians, New Orleans, my hometown, was a ghost town, no people, no pets, no squirrels in the trees, no birds singing songs and no insects buzz buzz buzzing along.
The same goes for every tree, bush and all the other flora, it's all dying.
I'll be grabbing some screenshots and posting some video tomorrow, so please come back. This post is mainly for family members and friends that check in on the blog, sorry if it's boring to most of you. I'll try to make tomorrow's post-Katrina posts more interesting.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at October 25, 2005 11:26 PM
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