Pictures

On the way home from my mom's house, we detoured through New Orleans. I used to work in Metairie and Tom worked for Chevron in downtown New Orleans, so we had to see for ourselves what it looked like now. Downtown has had alot of work done, although there are still lots of cars under overpasses that were destroyed in the flood. But the most damage we saw were on the outskirts. It was heartbreaking to see the trailer cities. Here are a few pictures that we took on 01/16/06.

This was a hotel in Metairie.
This was an apartment complex in Metairie.

The Superdome. Looks pretty much back to normal.

This is pretty much how all of downtown New Orleans was. It looks like they are completely redoing the drainage system in the city and the clean up and fix up is in high gear to get ready for Mardi Gras.
One of the many car graveyards under overpasses.

Above and below are two vehicles that were picked up and slammed back down by Katrina.

But New Orleans is slowly getting back to normal and here is the first sign....the bums are back. They were the scariest thing for me when we worked down there because they were VERY aggressive panhandlers and window washers. I was hoping that with the hurricane that FEMA would have moved all the bums out and into trailers but I guess that's too much to hope for. I suppose it wouldn't be a major city without bums.

We took LOTS of pictures on our trip. I only posted a few. So if you want to see the rest, you can go to Mom's party to see the pictures of the party or to New Orleans to see the pictures we took there. By the way, for those who didn't know, you can click on any picture on my blog and it will open the picture in your window and show it to you larger. You just click Back to go back to the blog after looking at the picture. By the way, if nothing is showing up in the New Orleans folder when you look, try again later. I'm loading them now.