New Orleans Hurricane Damage - Lower 9th Ward

[peckerwood70]

I know that most of these people are poor and this is all they have, but I don't think I could rebuild after that. I would want to go somewhere else.

[fastaia]

I am stunned at your inexpressible suffering. my breaking heart barely begins to express my compassion. I have been haunted by the losses endured by the people of New Orleans,still my permeating sorrow is merely an abstraction. It never can touch your grief.

I have been making paintings called The Floating City which is a metaphor for the strong,resilent and hope-filled hearts of its residents.I hope there is more than a calm after the storm, but that in time, every brick will rise.

[dmftmfwmf]

the lower 9th was completely destroyed.

sad, just sad.

[ruleta74835]

That's horrible. I had thought that the area flooded gradually from the levee breaks and had damage from simply sitting under a lake of flood water. This damage looks more like its from a tsunami. Did a wall of water smash thriugh this area?

[seamusdog420]

yes

[xxxx000]

Why didn't they show these videos on the nightly news a year ago?

[scoop66selu]

they didnt want you to know the truth...you still dont know everything. i did a lot of cleanup cuz i live just 60 miles away...people living in tents a year after the fact and places charging $5 for a hot shower

[jackiebaron]

Do you expect to get the truth from the nightly news? Are you that naive?

[NaughtyMina]

My heart.. My home.. this hurts...

[bestrealestateagent]

I have just returned from N.O. and had to pay a taxi driver $60 to drive me around the lower 9th ward yesterday for half an hour. It's atomic, a black hole. Over one year later, the only thing different today than from this video is that the water is gone. All the rest is identical to November 12, 2006.