A painful irony of post-Katrina New Orleans is how few
people throughout the country understand the extent of
what has happened to the city. Many people do not
realize that, nearly 10 months later...
A painful irony of post-Katrina New Orleans is how few people throughout the country understand the extent of what has happened to the city. Many people do not realize that, nearly 10 months later, things are not back to normal in New Orleans. As America's attention fades from Hurricane Katrina's impact, a disabled New Orleans continues to struggle for survival.
In many respects, New Orleans is alive and kicking. People are moving home, schools are opening, cultural activities have returned and, in some neighborhoods, life has a sense of near normalcy; however, all it takes is a short drive outside of the French Quarter or Uptown to witness extensive loss and devastation. The magnitude of flooding was incomprehensible and New Orleans still has many challenges to overcome.
The only way to really get a sense of the magnitude of the post-Katrina destruction is to physically walk or drive through the affected areas. With this in mind, NOVAC presents The Drive. The Drive provides a raw visual and narrated tour through four of the most devastated neighborhoods in New Orleans and is supported with extensive footage, maps, interviews, digital imagery, and an original musical score by Emmy nominated composer, Gil Talmi.
Through this community-based documentary project, we present stories from a local point-of-view. We hope this effort will garner continued support for the rebuilding of a great American city.
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New Orleans....nothing but a shithole, a solution wall off the city and turn it into a prison and seal off all food and watch all the black people starve.
I really feel sorry for all the people that were affected by Katrina. BUT, the bottom line is that all New Orleans has is some shitty little levees to protect against any size of storm, much less a monster like Katrina. What do you think's going to happen? Of course somethings going to go wrong and when the levees break the water has nowhere else to go but down. New Orleans is basically a bathtub surrounded by Gulf of Mexico. They built the seawall in Galveston 100 yrs. ago. So if they could do
This is America, what happened here? We can go fight in a foreign country and save babies there, but here we ignore our own, this is pitiful. It makes me ashamed, can you imagine if this video is what people think America represents?
I've been to New Orleans recently, as part of a Dutch/American exchange program (I'm Dutch) centered around water, I have visited the Lower Ninth Ward, I've done some volunteer work and I can honestly not believe how left alone these people are. But despite that, they are hopeful, warm and incredibly kind to people like me who came to help. It just really amazed me and I hope people will realize that 3 years after the storm, there are still so many things to do...
Hi, I am doing school project on Katrina and I am focusing solely on the Lower Ninth Ward. I was wandering if I could have your email address or AIM to ask questions about your volunteering experience?
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Appreciate it!
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