We finally saw the sun today and it sure was nice - even warm when you were out of the breeze. We went for a ride to Lake Pontchartrain and down town New Orleans. I think everybody did the same thing we did - there were a lot of people wandering around. Tomorrow Dad is going to take Mom and I "up river". Mom looked a little worried when he said that, but I don't think he meant it that way - he said we are going to see some plantations...
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| This is I-10 going across Lake Pontchartrain! |
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It's kind of hard to see in this picture, but there is an X spray painted on the front of this building. These are the marks made by the rescuers when they were looking for bodies in the flood. They marked every building they searched with this system. In one quadrant they put the date of the search, in another, who did the searching, in another how many bodies they found (they just left the bodies to retrieve later because they didn't have enough room in the mortuary) and the last one was how many bodies were removed. In this picture you may see a "O" with a slash through it - this means zero bodies. As we drove around, some houses obviously had been remodeled, but they left the spray paint like a badge of honor. The hurricane/flood was in 2005! They are still rebuilding six years later.
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| Typical New Orleans! |
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