rebuild. restore.renew. Pt 2
First of all, this post was hard for me to do. There are so many pictures to choose from. I tried hard to pick the ones that will mean the most to my readers--ones that tell the story for those of you without personal experience of the area. I haven't put captions on the pics because I lost track of which ones I uploaded when, but you won't need them, really. The pictures speak for themselves. A few things I'd like to point out: the pictures cover Slidell, New Orleans, and Plaquemines Parish; in one shot you will see a large boat on the side of the Interstate, about 2 miles from the north shore of the Lake;the indoor shot with the panelling walls is the house our aquaintances lived in in Slidell; the shot of the inside of the house (with the mauve furniture) is from the house where my dad grew up, in Gentilly; a couple of shots show the rescue marks, they also show where the water was at the time they were made; a couple of shots show the water lines as the pumps were finally brought back on line and slowly moved the water out of the city; one shot shows a house on stilts surrounded by other stilts--there used to be a group of houses there over the water, only one was left; one shot from Plaquemines shows a bridge with a group of masts pushed up against it; finally, everything that you see that's brown ought to be green--the saltwater destroyed most of the vegetation, including very old oak trees, in the city.
So. Here you go. To start you off, I put a link below to an area map.