Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I understand, and I'm getting to the point of facing it. If things were back to normal down here, it would be easy. But it is a 25 minute drive through abandoned neighborhoods just reaching the lower 9th ward. The upper 9th ward has people living in abandoned lots in tents. There is still no electricity, no traffic lights, and no police. I've never witnessed this degree of devastation before. I'm also suffering from some "survivor guilt" as my house is antebellum and is on high ground. Inside my walls, things are back to normal. Most of the people (students and personnel) at the college lost their houses and are living with relatives in other cities or in FEMA trailers. I'm going to try to find someone to go with me Saturday. I don't feel safe walking around there when there is really no city left. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Don Dory Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 7:33 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] The lower 9th ward Jeffery, Images like this are exactly why folks like you should be taking lots of images. Ten years from now, whatever happens there, we will have forgotten what was there. A visual record, widely dispersed prevents revisionism. Eisenhower commisioned massive documentation of the camps in Germany so that no one could ever say that what happened, never happened. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 1/23/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote: > > Here is one of the early scans (I didn't tweak it much, so it is a bit > dark). > > http://www.400tx.com/CarandBarge.html > > As you can see, this no longer resembles a neighborhood. Things look > pretty much as they did in September except for the clearing of roads > to make them > passable. The thing in the background that looks like a 2-story building > is > the barge that went through the levee. > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA > http://www.400tx.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information