The City of New Orleans

The City of New Orleans

Work sent me down to the city of New Orleans last week, and my boss and I wanted to see the Lower 9th Ward, so we hired a cab to drive us through. The cabbie was a Haitian man named Fritz, and for an hour's fare ($30) he took us out of downtown, over the bridge, and into the lowlands where the levee breaks did their worst.

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Here's a view down one block in the lower 9th ward. In the upper left picture the yard sign reads "I Am Coming Home." Next door (lower left), nobody's coming back. Note the sidewalk taken over by Mother Nature in the lower right.


More scenes from the Lower 9th Ward, clockwise from upper left:
a chandelier hanging in a gutted house;

FEMA marks spray-painted outside the door;

a rotten dining room chair, stuck 7 feet up when the water was finally drained away;

a house that says "au revoir".


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