[Leica] The lower 9th ward

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

good work...

be strong...

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies

On Jan 23, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
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