New Orleans of Old

At the root of it...

[URL=http://www.nola.com/t-p/]The Times-Picayune: New Orleans[/URL]

[Url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/new-orleans-imagery.htm]before and after satellite images[/Url]

Holy crap, an alligator!

[QUOTE=Prensa Taladradora][Url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/new-orleans-imagery.htm]before and after satellite images[/Url][/QUOTE]
Thanks for the link!

[URL=http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2005/09/20050901_a_main.asp]Recovering from Hurricane Katrina[/URL]

[url=http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/index.html?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.com]October 2004, National Geographic.[/url]

[QUOTE]Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.

When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great.[/QUOTE]

interesting article someone posted on another forum

[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde]At the root of it...

[URL=http://www.nola.com/t-p/]The Times-Picayune: New Orleans[/URL][/QUOTE]
It's an interesting understatement when the journalist in that article says that the city has descended into "virtual" anarchy. I'd say it's actual anarchy. Here's a clip from [B][i]The Austrailian[/i][/B] that I linked in phoenix's Mississippi thread a while ago.

World

Officer in land with no laws - KATRINA'S WAKE

Michael Davis
MATP
495 words
3 September 2005
The Australian
6 - NSW Country
1
English
Copyright 2005 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved

FRIGHTENED, helpless and hopelessly outnumbered, Australian James Gourlie and 30 fellow New Orleans police officers were trapped in a motel last night as the city descended into rampant lawlessness.

Mr Gourlie, 31, from Melbourne, was holed up at the Hampton Inn, a makeshift police headquarters, powerless to arrest criminals and with nowhere to hold them if they did.

"The criminals are walking around with AK47s and the police have handguns," his father Rod Gourlie told The Weekend Australian yesterday after talking with his son.

Most of Mr Gourlie's 200 colleagues have either fled or are missing. Another was murdered -- shot at close range in the back of the head -- as he walked away from looters.

At the nearby convention centre, Mr Gourlie told his family, two people had been killed. A 50-year-old woman was raped before her throat was cut and her body stuffed into an oven. Another man was found murdered in the kitchen.

Gourlie, whose American wife was evacuated from the city earlier in the week, and the remaining officers are trying to police the convention centre, which has turned into a refuge for 20,000 people left homeless by Hurricane Katrina.

Yet they are helpless, hopelessly outnumbered and unable to arrest criminals. Even if they

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could they have nowhere to take them.

Gourlie, who joined the New Orleans police force a year ago, has told his father in Melbourne and his sister Rebekah in Oregon during quick calls from his mobile phone that he was "extremely distressed".

With the mayhem around him, he has been particularly upset at seeing the bodies of children lying in the street outside the hotel.

"It's a nightmare," Gourlie's sister Rebekah Meeks told The Weekend Australian yesterday from the US.

"My brother and the others who have decided to remain on duty are in the hotel because they had to abandon their police station when rogue citizens armed with guns took it over," she said.

Late on Thursday (local time), the precinct captain told the officers to abandon their post.

Most refused to obey.

"The ones that are there won't leave because they feel it's their duty to try to protect the people and help them get to safety," said his father, Rod Gourlie. "James said if they leave, the buses will stop coming back to ferry people to safety."

He said his son was annoyed that tourists, who were being fed and had somewhere to sleep, were being given preference on the evacuation buses ahead of local residents, many of whom have only the clothes they are wearing.

Mr Gourlie said he had contacted the Department of Foreign Affairs to check on the welfare of his son, but was told officials were unable to get any reliable information out of the devastated city.

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Thanks VP. Posted commits in the Mississippi thread.

I'm attaching pictures I've collected from various places. I'd appreciate anyone adding others they find. I want to document the events unfolding and transformation best I can. I'm also trying to find good shots of past and current images to make a contrasting collage.

I believe in the power of words and images so if you want to throw in poetry I'll add it to the collage.

Also this letter should be achieved:
From [URL=http://www.nola.com/t-p/][I]The Times-Picayune: New Orleans[/I][/URL]

[QUOTE][B][SIZE=3]OUR OPINIONS: An open letter to the President
Dear Mr. President:[/B][/SIZE]

We heard you loud and clear Friday when you visited our devastated city and the Gulf Coast and said, "What is not working, we’re going to make it right."

Please forgive us if we wait to see proof of your promise before believing you. But we have good reason for our skepticism.

Bienville built New Orleans where he built it for one main reason: It’s accessible. The city between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain was easy to reach in 1718.

How much easier it is to access in 2005 now that there are interstates and bridges, airports and helipads, cruise ships, barges, buses and diesel-powered trucks.

Despite the city’s multiple points of entry, our nation’s bureaucrats spent days after last week’s hurricane wringing their hands, lamenting the fact that they could neither rescue the city’s stranded victims nor bring them food, water and medical supplies.

Meanwhile there were journalists, including some who work for The Times-Picayune, going in and out of the city via the Crescent City Connection. On Thursday morning, that crew saw a caravan of 13 Wal-Mart tractor trailers headed into town to bring food, water and supplies to a dying city.

Television reporters were doing live reports from downtown New Orleans streets. Harry Connick Jr. brought in some aid Thursday, and his efforts were the focus of a "Today" show story Friday morning.

Yet, the people trained to protect our nation, the people whose job it is to quickly bring in aid were absent. Those who should have been deploying troops were singing a sad song about how our city was impossible to reach.

We’re angry, Mr. President, and we’ll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That’s to the government’s shame.

Mayor Ray Nagin did the right thing Sunday when he allowed those with no other alternative to seek shelter from the storm inside the Louisiana Superdome. We still don’t know what the death toll is, but one thing is certain: Had the Superdome not been opened, the city’s death toll would have been higher. The toll may even have been exponentially higher.

It was clear to us by late morning Monday that many people inside the Superdome would not be returning home. It should have been clear to our government, Mr. President. So why weren’t they evacuated out of the city immediately? We learned seven years ago, when Hurricane Georges threatened, that the Dome isn’t suitable as a long-term shelter. So what did state and national officials think would happen to tens of thousands of people trapped inside with no air conditioning, overflowing toilets and dwindling amounts of food, water and other essentials?

State Rep. Karen Carter was right Friday when she said the city didn’t have but two urgent needs: "Buses! And gas!" Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially.

In a nationally televised interview Thursday night, he said his agency hadn’t known until that day that thousands of storm victims were stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. He gave another nationally televised interview the next morning and said, "We’ve provided food to the people at the Convention Center so that they’ve gotten at least one, if not two meals, every single day."

Lies don’t get more bald-faced than that, Mr. President.

Yet, when you met with Mr. Brown Friday morning, you told him, "You’re doing a heck of a job."

That’s unbelievable.

There were thousands of people at the Convention Center because the riverfront is high ground. The fact that so many people had reached there on foot is proof that rescue vehicles could have gotten there, too.

We, who are from New Orleans, are no less American than those who live on the Great Plains or along the Atlantic Seaboard. We’re no less important than those from the Pacific Northwest or Appalachia. Our people deserved to be rescued.

No expense should have been spared. No excuses should have been voiced. Especially not one as preposterous as the claim that New Orleans couldn’t be reached.

Mr. President, we sincerely hope you fulfill your promise to make our beloved communities work right once again.

When you do, we will be the first to applaud. [/QUOTE]

I think recording these events is very comendable on your part. They're things that should never ever be forgotten. About that letter, is that something you wrote? Will it be posted anywhere else?
I think its a very poignant letter and very well written. Its something that a lot more people should read. Especially people in a position to act.

No I didn't write it. Now that you mention it I need to find it's origin so I can cite it. I've been looking at so many articles and pictures I got sloppy. cheers and thanks.

[COLOR=Red]Edit: More Pictures[/COLOR]

i have tons of pictures

[INDENT]1- a family of 48 members headed out, escaping the hurricane. A pregnant woman began having contractions so the family stopped at an abandoned hotel and she had a beautiful, healthy baby girl!!!

2- highways busted up

3- city flooded

4- a kid who made some shoes out of cardboard and rubber bands.....and i thought it was pretty neat that the cardboard reads, "keep moving"

5- someone swimming in oily waters [/INDENT]

will post more later

1) boat party

2) car party

3) prisoners held on a highway bridge

4) school buses

5) waste waters

[QUOTE=Minuet]i have tons of pictures

[INDENT]1- a family of 48 members headed out, escaping the hurricane. A pregnant woman began having contractions so the family stopped at an abandoned hotel and she had a beautiful, healthy baby girl!!!

2- highways busted up

3- city flooded

4- a kid who made some shoes out of cardboard and rubber bands.....and i thought it was pretty neat that the cardboard reads, "keep moving"

5- someone swimming in oily waters [/INDENT]

will post more later[/QUOTE]
The busted up highway is I-10. That was known as the Twin Span, it leads to Slidell, which I've heard was pretty much obliterated too.

will hunt for more. for now, a few befores and afters:

[URL=http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/8608/frenchqtrbeforek1dr.jpg]The French Quarter Before[/URL]

[URL=http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3115/frnchqtrafter2wx.jpg]French Quarter After[/URL]

[URL=http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/7534/1996photo0wf.jpg] Lights On[/URL]

[URL=http://img348.imageshack.us/img348/4447/superdome2beforek8wm.jpg]Superdome Before[/URL]

[URL=http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/5563/superdomeafter8so.jpg]Superdome After[/URL]

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[URL=http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/8242/tuba7nc.jpg]Tuba Time[/URL]

[URL=http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/8421/insidehouse5jo.jpg]Interior of damaged house[/URL]

[URL=http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/1037/house4pz.jpg]House Exterior Damage[/URL]

[URL=http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/1580/105yrold4ab.jpg]105 year old super woman[/URL]

[URL=http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/8811/dontry8dn.jpg]Disclaimer[/URL]

[URL=http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/8763/wadingwaiting5uw.jpg]Wading and Waiting[/URL]

[URL=http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/879/waterhorse9cs.jpg]A lone Horse in the water[/URL]

[URL=http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/11/waterloggedhandsof40yo5sr.jpg]She is only 40 but this is what water logged hands look of[/URL]

[URL=http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/8779/whoknew7ve.jpg]Who knew?[/URL]

[URL=http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/2360/closerfloodcity3vx.jpg]Closer in the flood of City[/URL]

[URL=http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/7610/alive2yc.jpg]live, a[/URL]

[URL=http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/5189/arial1sb.jpg]Flood[/URL]

[URL=http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/339/katrinaveteran7ww.jpg]Katrina Veteran[/URL]

[URL=http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/5403/loveyou1bj.jpg]Note[/URL]

[URL=http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7463/scharlesave3us.jpg]St. Charles Avenue - we walked this street[/URL]

[URL=http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/5856/buspeoples7ig.jpg]Bus Peoples[/URL]

[URL=http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/9519/evacuees6cr.jpg]Evacuees[/URL]

[URL=http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/3126/afterevacuation1bk.jpg]After Evacuation[/URL]

hey i just noticed the attachments get jumbled up and no longer do the captions match the pictures in order, but im sure can figure

You're Such a LOVE! YoU ARE!

someone at wikipedia has been very busy

[Url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_Hurricane_Katrina_on_New_Orleans]wealth of info[/Url]

I hate that an "act of God" like a hurricane can wipe out most of a city that is considered "sinful" by some and it freaking leaves Bourbon Street intact and dry. Who says Yahweh [FONT=Arial][SIZE=1](if you believe in him)[/SIZE] [/FONT] doesn't have a sense of humor?

I was thinking the same thing. All the jesus freaks in this country are going to go crazy over this. I think they're lying low right now and waiting for the shock to go away. They're going to pretend to help and be concerned at first, and then BAM!! They're gonna throw every thing they've got at the fact that this happened to one of America's sinful city's.
If the tsunami wasn't enough to give them signs of the apocalypes, this is going to play right into their hands.

[QUOTE=Prensa Taladradora]someone at wikipedia has been very busy
[Url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_Hurricane_Katrina_on_New_Orleans]wealth of info[/Url][/QUOTE]
Hell ya! and well worth it. !Thanks!

[QUOTE=Jeebus]I hate that an "act of God" like a hurricane can wipe out most of a city that is considered "sinful" by some and it freaking leaves Bourbon Street intact and dry. Who says Yahweh [FONT=Arial][SIZE=1](if you believe in him)[/SIZE] [/FONT] doesn't have a sense of humor?[/QUOTE]
Sinful? Hardly. If anything it's where God lives.

[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde]Sinful? Hardly. If anything it's where God lives.[/QUOTE]
In his many different forms.

Death is equal-opportunity. Behavior dictates "sin". Washington, D.C. is still there...

[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde]
Sinful? Hardly. If anything it's where God lives.[/QUOTE]

Oh. Right. Mardi Gras, beads, and boobies.

[QUOTE=Jeebus]Oh. Right. Mardi Gras, beads, and boobies.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like where God would live to me. Gotta love those beads.

[URL=http://shey.net/reblog/2005/08/help_new_orlean.html]before/after[/URL]

[QUOTE=Jeebus]Oh. Right. Mardi Gras, beads, and boobies.[/QUOTE]
It's actually a religious holiday...

I'll stay with these guys:
Anubis, Apollo, Athena, Baldur, Dionysius,
Geb, Hades, Ares, Hera, Isis, Osiris, Poseidon, Ra,
Rhiannon, Thor, Zeus, Set, and of course Aphrodite

"And the devil shall come for thee."

It's lopsided close-minded FUCks like this that I have no tolerance for.

[QUOTE]NEW ORLEANS’ SIN BROUGHT DEVASTATION: ‘REPENT AMERICA’
By J. Grant Swank, Jr.
MichNews.com
Aug 31, 2005

"Southern Decadence" was set for New Orleans soon. It was to be a yearly hoopla celebrating practicing homosexuality as a legitimate, giddy lifestyle.

Thousands upon thousands were going to crawl all over New Orleans "to celebrate their sexuality," according to Methodist lay preacher Gary Hopkins of Ekklesia.co.uk.

In other words, Sodom and Gomorrah were to be reenacted in broad daylight — and into the night haunts as well. It would be one high ol’ time of it in the southern scape.

Police would be forced to look the other way or fill the jails to overflowing. Decent citizens would cover their eyes to play hide-and-seek against the all-inclusive wickedness. Little children would be taken on hopefully safe excursions in order to escape the blatant evil parading their avenues. Businesses would money-shoot off the charts from homosexuals’ open wallets in festive abandon.

Then came along Katrina.

Now New Orleans is under water, bathing in sewage and devastation rather than providing downtown fountains for homosexual capers aplenty.

All of this has prompted Repent America to conclude that the biblical God had a heavy hand in the Katrina swing along. It’s an "‘act of God,’" they claim to media. United States-based, Repent America goes to the streets to preach repentance of sin, conversion to Christ as personal Savior, and thereby living the holy lifestyle according to the biblical message.

As far as Repent America is concerned, divine judgment has come upon a metropolis that was bent on making its environs open to hell’s demons. Therefore, God intervened. There will be no "Southern Decadence" skipping the light fantastic. Over and out. Done. Gone. Under water.

While emergency workers seek out the dead and trapped, Repent America preaches the gospel according to Jesus when He opened His public ministry with one word: "Repent." So it was with Peter on the Day of Pentecost while the Upper Room pray-ers were overcome with the Holy Spirit’s baptism. Preacher Peter opened his message in the Jerusalem streets with one word: "Repent."

Repent America brings the nation back to Jesus’ opening call and Peter’s declaration as this evangelical organization continues to warn souls of personal accounting at the Judgment Seat of Christ. They do so without apology. They do so at the chagrin of theological liberals. They do so at the mockery of lesbians and homosexuals who claim to be "Christian." Yet they do so, being accountable for their mission only to their biblical God.

Now the Louisiana governor has gone to the media to ask for prayers for the state and particularly for New Orleans. How very interesting that New Orleans, extending the welcome mat to sodomites, is now in need of prayer from the very God the perverts disdain.

It’s that way when disaster strikes. As long as skies are clear and people’s bellies are full, God can go hang. But when calamity hits hard across America’s face, statesmen, governors, mayors and news people call on God. What must God think about that kind of hypocrisy?

Repent America will not play the hypocrisy game but will keep to one mode for lifestyle — that of the biblical mandate. It is this, in both Old and New Testaments: "Be holy, even as I am holy." Those words are from the Creator.

One wonders what "Southern Decadence" organizers are pondering today and tomorrow and the next morrow. Will any moral sense break through their din? Only God knows. Nevertheless, Repent America will be there to warn them, beseech them to turn from their wicked ways, and live the holy life under God.

Repent America’s director, Michael Marcavage, said that "‘this act of God destroyed a wicked city. New Orleans was a city that opened its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same.

"’We must not forget that the citizens of New Orleans tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long.’"

Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr. [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=]Mardi Gras, which means "Fat Tuesday" in French, is a holiday originating from ancient pagan traditions that were Christianized by the Catholic Church. Although Fat Tuesday always falls 46 days prior to Easter Sunday (40 days of Lent plus 6 Sundays), the exact date varies from year to year. Fat Tuesday is always celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent - an austere season of fasting and penitence.
Although Mardi Gras refers to a specific day, it isn't a single-day celebration. The term Mardi Gras encompasses a much longer period of celebration leading up to Fat Tuesday. Every year, the season of Mardi Gras, or "Carnival," begins on January 6, the Twelfth Night feast of the Epiphany. According to Christian beliefs, the Epiphany is the day that the three kings, or Wise Men, visited the Christ Child. The Carnival season runs for several weeks and culminates at midnight on Fat Tuesday, the final day for merrymaking before Lent begins. Loosely translated, the name carnival means "farewell to flesh" from the Latin words carnis (flesh) and vale (farewell).[/QUOTE]

Monks celebrated Twelfth Night (there's a ... um...play by Shakespeare that you may have heard of...) - that was their one night a year of partying. The Catholics turned it into Mardi Gras - Fat Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday, which is the beginning of Lent - so the days leading up to Lent are when you get ready to give up whatever you're gonna give up.

And New Orleans was an incredibly religious city before this -- say what you want about it being sinful, but not everyone that lived there spent all of their time on Bourbon Street. Why did I go to college there and end up staying there for 12 years? Well, I'm not religious - I went because you could drink when you were 18.

[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde]I'll stay with these guys:
Anubis, Apollo, Athena, Baldur, Dionysius,
Geb, Hades, Ares, Hera, Isis, Osiris, Poseidon, Ra,
Rhiannon, Thor, Zeus, Set, and of course Aphrodite

[QUOTE]"And the devil shall come for thee."

It's lopsided close-minded FUCks like this that I have no tolerance for.[/QUOTE]
NEW ORLEANS’ SIN BROUGHT DEVASTATION: ‘REPENT AMERICA’
By J. Grant Swank, Jr.
MichNews.com
Aug 31, 2005

"Southern Decadence" was set for New Orleans soon. It was to be a yearly hoopla celebrating practicing homosexuality as a legitimate, giddy lifestyle.

Thousands upon thousands were going to crawl all over New Orleans "to celebrate their sexuality," according to Methodist lay preacher Gary Hopkins of Ekklesia.co.uk.

Now New Orleans is under water, bathing in sewage and devastation rather than providing downtown fountains for homosexual capers aplenty.

One wonders what "Southern Decadence" organizers are pondering today and tomorrow and the next morrow. Will any moral sense break through their din? Only God knows. Nevertheless, Repent America will be there to warn them, beseech them to turn from their wicked ways, and live the holy life under God.

Repent America’s director, Michael Marcavage, said that "‘this act of God destroyed a wicked city. New Orleans was a city that opened its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same.

"’We must not forget that the citizens of New Orleans tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long.’"
Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr. [/QUOTE]

This little fella needs to go crawl back under his rock. I thought it was God punishing the sinful parading homosexuals, yet his initial quote says something about the devil comin' for them. And Southern Decadence was last weekend and this weekend, because they apparently stayed and were marching around carrying signs that said "Life Goes On".

The man has obviously never been there because there really aren't many fountains for "homosexuals" to frolic around in...why? Because the drunken tourists would piss in them.

And if Jesus is supposed to forgive your so-called sins? Why [I]not[/I] display them in public. Isn't humility a virtue?

Sorry...stuff like this makes me mad.

[QUOTE=wenknee]This little fella needs to go crawl back under his rock. I thought it was God punishing the sinful parading homosexuals, yet his initial quote says something about the devil comin' for them.[/QUOTE]
Sorry, "and the devil shall come for thee," was me mocking a Minster.

Why would I mock a Minster? Blame the fucked up foster place I stayed at when lost. straying from the lord's path meant the belt and words like, "And the devil shall come for thee. Lord Jesus save him." Ha! Something tells me i wasn't the one who needed the saving. But ever since then I quote him when I roll my eyes. :rolleyes: As if to say, "bite me." OK?

and yeah, the article is prime poop thinking.

[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde]Sorry, "and the devil shall come for thee," was me mocking a Minster.

Why would I mock a Minster? Blame the fucked up foster place I stayed at when lost. straying from the lord's path meant the belt and words like, "And the devil shall come for thee. Lord Jesus save him." Ha! Something tells me i wasn't the one who needed the saving. But ever since then I quote him when I roll my eyes. :rolleyes: As if to say, "bite me." OK?

and yeah, the article is prime poop thinking.[/QUOTE]
OH...I just read it wrong...I assumed something like that would come out of the same mouth, but it seems it was the same type of mouth....

There's nothing wrong with mocking ministers. They're just people - full of sin themselves, at least if you believe what comes out of their mouths.

[QUOTE=Jeebus][QUOTE=wenknee]It's actually a religious holiday...[/QUOTE]Oh. Right. Mardi Gras, beads, and boobies.[/quote]

Who ever said boobies weren't religious? Kidding.

I received a News Letter from Poets & Writers. I've been donating boxes of books to the red cross. But here are some organizations looking for additional add.

[QUOTE]Hurricane Katrina-- How Writers Can Help

Dear Friends,

In addition to the important work being done by the American Red Cross and other relief agencies, there are a number of special efforts we thought writers might be particularly interested in:

The Katrina Literary Collective has been created to collect and distribute books to victims of the hurricane. For more information, contact the Amber Communications Group at [email]amberbk@aol.com[/email].

A Louisiana Disaster Relief Fund has been established to receive monetary donations to assist libraries in Southeastern Louisiana. For more info, visit the American Library Association at [url]http://www.ala.org/[/url]

The American Booksellers Association has created a Bookseller Relief Fund to assist independent booksellers affected by Hurricane Katrina. For info, visit [url]http://www.bookweb.org/[/url]

The Southern Arts Federation has set up an Emergency Relief Fund to assist arts organizations and artists in those Gulf Communities most devastated by Katrina. For more info, go to [url]http://www.southarts.org/[/url]

Thank you for whatever help you're able to provide.

[/QUOTE]

[FONT=Garamond][SIZE=6][COLOR=Red]Happy [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=4][COLOR=Orange]Mardi [/COLOR][/SIZE][COLOR=Lime][SIZE=7]Gras! [/SIZE][/COLOR] [/FONT]
[IMG]http://members.aol.com/drjekyll8mrhyde/mask.jpg[/IMG]
[I][COLOR=Red]Keep moving old girl. [/COLOR][/I]

i think Jase said he was going so i'd like to hear a first hand account.
[URL=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5235978]
New Orleans a City of Paradoxes During Mardi Gras[/URL]

compliments of [COLOR=Orange]wenknee[/COLOR]:
Here's some king cake for you -- it's basically a cinnamon roll with icing, colored sugar and filling - there's a little plastic baby inside and the person that gets the baby in their piece is supposed to buy the next king cake.
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b394/wenknee/kingcake.jpg[/IMG]

And here's a [URL=http://www.mardigrasdigest.com/features/dictionary22.htm][COLOR=DarkOrchid]Mardi Gras dictionary[/COLOR][/URL].

This was my first Mardi Gras so I don't have a perspective from which to compare the 'old' New Orleans to the 'new' one. The party itself was hopefully not my last Mardi Gras. It's hard to compare it to anything else I've seen. There was insanity to spare and yet it never felt out of control either. Strange but fun as hell.

I slapped together some pics in a quickie article [URL=http://coloredchalk.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=13]here[/URL]. I'll post more pics in the Mardi Gras thread later today.

[URL=http://www.hivelys.com/NewOrleans.html]Pictures from March 2005 trip to New Orleans[/URL]

These are only pictures of Lafayette Cemetary No. 1 in the Garden District.

It is a slide show of the pictures, so it might take a minute to load.

Hey, e-j

This is definitely the After Katrina part

Jen & I just got back from Fat Tuesday. We spent the day there. I think we took 72 pictures. We rode our bikes all over the city. Must have covered close to twenty miles throughout the day. Im working on that story, actually: the liquor and the colors and the noise. And the broken parts of the city she loves with all of her heart. We only spent the day there, so it was a 10 hour trip for a one day stay and then back that night, which may seem kind of pointless, but it was the first time she's had the chance to see her city since Katrina and Rita, so we took the opp to see and support the city. I'm getting the pictures developed Sunday and if you think it help you at all, I'll also have the images put to disc and mail that disc to you. No problem, just hit my PM with your current address and I'll get that disc out to you Monday

Good stuff, man. Best of luck on your quest
Your homie,
kabol

Will Clarke sent this link to me the other day. It's for the website of a buddy of his who's done an incredible and moving art project/ experiment in social psychology by making postcards from original photographs taken around New Orleans prior to the flood. Then writing notes on the cards and addresses for personal contacts, leaving them around the city post flood, in various locations, seeing how many get mailed on by good samaritans.

Check it out.

[url]www.greetingsfromneworleans.typepad.com[/url]

Is Herbie still bouncing drunks out of Johny Whites Hole In The Wall just off Bourbon? He was a nice fella. Saved us from ourselves more than once.