New Orleans One Year Later, Part Deux
Where were we? Oh yes, the Ninth Ward. The first image below shows the top floor of a house fallen down upon the bottom floor. The second gives the overall flavor of the ward.
Of course, other areas of the city also continue to show the ill effects not only of water and wind damage but of human neglect. Ever wonder what a golf course would look like if it got the irrigation treatment of a lifetime and then went untended for a year? Here you go, straight out of Logan's Run:
Times like these show you how important human maintenance is. But a golf-course-grown-wild isn't dangerous to anybody. I found the lack of attention to certain really important elements of the city's infrastructure, such as traffic control, much more disconcerting:
Perhaps whoever wins that lottery will consider donating some back to the city.
I do want to end on a positive note. In spite of the wreckage, the hale and hardy citizens of New Orleans haven't lost their sense of humor -- or their desire to make lemonade (money) out of lemons (disaster):
posted by WinterWheat | 12:11 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for posting these. They are great. I just read the AP take on the slow response, you know one of those retrospective things. It sucked, journalism wise. It's more than a little depressing. I wish this were a bigger issue for all those midterm legislators.
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