[Leica] Getting back into New Orleans

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

Chris, I do hope you are finding some positives as you move back into 
the area. Your pictures are telling a story. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers
On 02/10/2005, at 5:34 AM, Chris Williams wrote:

> 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
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> 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
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