Guest Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 As my departure from New Orleans grew more imminent I made it a point to drive around and take pictures of as many neighborhoods as possible. These are pictures from the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, one of the poorest (and not coincidentally, one of the most flood-prone) areas of the city. Most of these pictures were taken over the last two months, April-May 2007, nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina, which struck the city on August 29, 2005. I post them here because I think a lot of people don't realize the extent of the destruction and the painfully slow recovery. These poor areas aren't covered much in the mainstream media. I think the images speak for themselves. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1001.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1002.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1003.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1004.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1005.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1006.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1007.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1008.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1009.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1010.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1011.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1012.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1013.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1014.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/mrhardgain/1015.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Thanks for sharing those picture dude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnat Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Wow. Powerful stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdarthveganx Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 thanks to the good ol' us of a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offense74 Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 I didn't see much of this when I was there last year but I saw some on the way to the swamp. It's tragic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markc7 Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Unbelievable. This makes me sad and angry at the same time. I was in NOLA six months before Katrina. People often say to me "if you ever go back it'll be completely different from what you saw". But that's not quite true. A tourist sees the French Quarter, the Garden District, and other wealthy predominantly white neighbourhoods. Those areas were hurt by the flood, but not nearly to the same extent as the poorer and predominantly black areas of town. If I went back today and visited all the same places that I went to in 2005, I'm sure I wouldn't see the level of destruction shown in your pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashnburn Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 For every bad & broken house there.. theres some real estate person trying to making crazy $. That's a free economy for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odidnetne Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Almost 2 years later and we don't have enough money to repair it, and yet we can somehow send everyone over to Iraq and keep getting more money for that? Powerful pictures, thanks for posting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveliberate Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Thanks for sharing these photos. Intense stuff - though honestly I've seen parts of NO that looked like that pre-Katrina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Maybe you could send these to some local media stations in your area ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finbarrio Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 Powerful stuff. As you know, I was just there about a month ago and the thing that struck me the most was the extent of the devastation, and how it seems as though progress is barely creeping along. There are just miles and miles and miles of empty, destroyed houses, abandoned neighborhoods. It's sad that it could be like that anywhere, but even sadder that it's in supposedly the most advanced country in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegancupcakes Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 I'm shocked that so much still needs to be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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