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On Saturday we drove over to New Orleans from Houston. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corivax and I did the same thing 3 years ago, but things have changed.
Will 'Superdome' ever be non-ironic again?
This is just east of downtown, in the Bywater area.
This neighborhood was still very busy, with lots of pedestrian activity. The spraypaint left by the teams searching for dead bodies was very visible, most of them also marked TFW for Toxic Flood Water. These still had people living in them, without much evidence of remediation.
The levee as we cross the Industrial Canal into the Lower 9th. It broke just to the north of this bridge.
Up until now, while there was damage, there were still people. The Lower 9th was mostly deserted.
The water was 12 feet deep through here.
This is approaching the levee breaks between Florida and Clairborne. There were fewer houses here because many of them had washed away. Something like a square mile of complete devastation.
On the way back to downtown we were passed by a National Guard humvee carrying armed soldiers. And then it was back to downtown, just 2 miles away, with the casinos and flashing neon and the desperate, non-stop party of Bourbon Street.
Our response to Katrina was an obscenity at the time, and it is an obscenity that so little has been done a year later. This isn't part of America, it's part of the third world. Where is its Marshall Plan?
corivax and I did the same thing 3 years ago, but things have changed.Will 'Superdome' ever be non-ironic again?
This is just east of downtown, in the Bywater area.
This neighborhood was still very busy, with lots of pedestrian activity. The spraypaint left by the teams searching for dead bodies was very visible, most of them also marked TFW for Toxic Flood Water. These still had people living in them, without much evidence of remediation.
The levee as we cross the Industrial Canal into the Lower 9th. It broke just to the north of this bridge.
Up until now, while there was damage, there were still people. The Lower 9th was mostly deserted.
The water was 12 feet deep through here.
This is approaching the levee breaks between Florida and Clairborne. There were fewer houses here because many of them had washed away. Something like a square mile of complete devastation.
On the way back to downtown we were passed by a National Guard humvee carrying armed soldiers. And then it was back to downtown, just 2 miles away, with the casinos and flashing neon and the desperate, non-stop party of Bourbon Street.
Our response to Katrina was an obscenity at the time, and it is an obscenity that so little has been done a year later. This isn't part of America, it's part of the third world. Where is its Marshall Plan?