Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was in the first group allowed back in the city (my house is 150 years old, in the Irish Channel and high and dry). People were let back into the city in increments, depending on the condition of their neighborhood. The Lower 9th Ward was the hardest hit, and those people were not allowed back in for months. When they were finally allowed to come back and salvage what they could, they were told that the entire Lower 9th Ward would be bulldozed to the ground (it doesn't have far to go). That set off some legal battles, and things are still sort of gridlocked. Even if people do plan to scrape off their land and rebuild, they cannot get insurance nor can they get water, electricity, gas, phones, etc. It is taking months for reality to set in. The most that has been done is scraping the mud and debris from the streets. I don't know how they plan to get that enormous barge back into the canal. > > From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> > Date: 2006/01/25 Wed AM 09:40:41 EST > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: PAW - Week 3 - Jeffery > > Hi Jeffery, > > To all of you who have commented, thank you much for your moral support. > > I'll try to get as many scenes on film as I can. I have waited too long > > to > > get started on this. It is fortuitous that nothing down there has > > changed > > in 5 months.<<< > > As an outsider I maybe stepping on some folks toes asking my question > regarding your comment: > >>>It is fortuitous that nothing down there has changed in 5 months.<<< > > I realize that this was a disaster of great magnitude, however in the most > powerful country in the world, "how come it's still in the same > condition?" > Certainly after 5 months? I don't doubt there's been a great deal done, > but > your photographs so far look as though the storm happened a few days ago. > > Just curious. > ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Jeffery