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Subject: [Leica] Getting back into New Orleans
From: vintagebill at verizon.net (bill harting)
Date: Sat Oct 1 12:53:30 2005
References: <20051001193412.34678.qmail@web34015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Wow, Chris, it's amazing to see cool detached pictures of the damage. I've 
been to that Copeland's, for example, finally a frame of reference outside 
of the convention center. You've got a lot of work to do, looks like.

Best,

Bill





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Williams" <zoeica1@yahoo.com>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Cc: <forum@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 3:34 PM
Subject: [Leica] Getting back into New Orleans


> We arrived Tuesday night at the New Orleans Parish checkpoint. NOPD would 
> not let us back in though the National Guard would. So we stayed the night 
> and attempted to get in Wednesday morning. National Guard again let us 
> through but not the NOPD. We went to Kinko's to print up business 
> letterheads which the NOPD told us would work to get back in. By the way, 
> the NOPD continually played "Bad Boys" in the cars all through Tuesday 
> night. National Guard calls them the NO-PD.
>
> Anyway, we made it through another National Guard checkpoint without any 
> problems and then drove to our house. It had been 4 weeks since we've seen 
> it.
>
> Here are some photos I took of the fire on our block just 1 house away 
> from us. We were extremely lucky. Only some smoke and water damage.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Weddings
>
> All Leica books now sitting pretty in an AC storage in FL.
>
> Big thanks to the National Guard, New Orleans would have been lost without 
> them.
>
> Chris
> New Orleans
> www.zoeicaimages.com
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