Katrina pictures? (New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner: power lines, rental, how much) - New Orleans - Metairie - Kenner metro area - City-Data Forum

lmcintyre1s · 05-29-2010, 10:58 PM

Could anyone reccommend a site with some photos of the greater NOLA area in the days after Katrina? I'm looking for something that may have pictures outside of the areas the media focused on (Superdome, Lower 9th, etc). Possibly Kenner/Metairie, etc. I just moved down here and I've seen a couple photos of places I've been driving around lately and it's just incredible to think how it must have looked back in '05. Thanks in advance!

Pook77 · 05-30-2010, 11:23 AM

We had 2 feet of water in our Kenner neighborhood and the wind damage was comparable to most other areas of the city. I didn't get pictures of the neighborhood, only my house, but think about the ground in any flooded neighborhood - full of trash, landscaping washed away, etc. Difference in my 'hood was that our houses were all still standing with the exception of extensive water and wind damage. What got to me the most is when the street started filling up with FEMA trailers and we all put those blue tarps on our damaged roofs. The air just had a feel of sadness. Kenner has changed dramatically since Katrina. Many of my neighbors just decided to move on, leaving their properties standing as they were. Businesses have changed the most. I'll see what I can find. I've been on a Katrina "kick" myself lately.

lmcintyre1s · 05-30-2010, 03:08 PM

Thanks for the response. I kept up with New Orleans pretty closely when the storm hit, but it's completely different now that I'm living down here...as I said, it's just amazing to think what the place had to have looked like.

Pook77 · 05-30-2010, 04:46 PM

I hear ya - so many people say that and I agree. There are so many things "New Orleans" that my husband got me into before we moved that mean so much more to me actually living here.

I wish I would've taken more pictures of my surroundings when we came back after the storm because that time is getting fuzzy in my mind. I can't imagine my neighborhood looking like it did and I was there! It is amazing, no doubt.

KCGator · 08-12-2010, 02:59 PM

I probably have pictures of my old house, but we didn't get back in until near October, so its mostly mold damage and the like. PM me if you'd like

I remember it, I'll never forget. I had a blue tarp, lived in a FEMA trailer in my driveway (that arrived 3 1/2 mos later than scheduled. I also lived in a rental on Esplanade until they kicked me out for Mardi Gras, a hotel and on two friend's couches). The days on Esplanade felt like a war zone (Jan/Feb). Trash everywhere, power was intermittent, and the cars under the bridge just COVERED in that red film, the reservists armed with big guns, the humvees, feeling like every store that re-opened was some kind of personal victory. It didn't feel like America.

Nico82NO · 08-13-2010, 12:04 AM

i have a few from the gentily area taken october 2005 (lol i snuck back into the city and dodged national guard road blocks like a champ for a while) near my old house.

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Nico82NO · 08-13-2010, 12:11 AM

ha sorry for the size to all those with slow internet. camera does the debri piles size no justice. look carefully it stretches all the way across west end blvd. keep in mind thats a two lane bike path not a standard side walk, infact go out there and look for yourself that section is all clean now it was right before the bomb shelter. Id say from memory that that pile was getting close to the power lines in height. it was easily taller than the trees just doesnt look like it from the moving car, i guess i should have gotten out and stood by it. in the first picture there are two trucks on the left parked next to it for some sense of scale. the other pictures aer randomly around town in gentily.

Nico82NO · 08-13-2010, 12:25 AM

correction i was back before these pics were taken. the timestamp when i put them on my pc was october 15th. I had been back for a few weeks at least two by then if not more. wait howd i get them on my pc...? oh yeah i had that with me... wait where was i living? ha I lost a year or two in there of my life when I was just living each day at a time. I hate to say it was actually pretty fun but im young and it was all just one big new adventure.

BradfromNO · 08-13-2010, 07:02 AM

OH $hit, West End used to be something to look at. WOW, what are they
gonna do, just light it off one day?? And that's laying on Elysian Fields, right?
I never get to any of the damaged areas when I go home, so I never see any of that.
Dang that's alot of limbs and stumps.

Nico82NO · 08-13-2010, 08:58 AM

Well all the garbage on west end is gone now. But that pile was not the only one by the end of it there were trash heaps that large all the way down that neutral ground. Im not completely sure where they put it all. They didnt burn it. i assume they just trucked it off to the landfills eventually. I think they used that area as a fast dump just to get the crap off the streets. The other pics are elysian and st. roch. looking at hem im surprised how much green grass was growing after all that water dumped in! leave it to nature lol the raptor population in the urban areas exploded as well afterwards. they keep the rodent and pidgeon populations in check and its cool to see one nail a bird or kitten (yeah it has happened) in an open field every once in a while.