NOLA 2005 Tri-Sate Shutter Swap 011 - Hotel Isle of Dry

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This is a big house in riverbend offering shelter after Hurricane Katrina.

NOLA 2005 Tri-State Shutter Swap 006 - Street Memorial

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Memorials for lost or missing persons persisted for some months after the 2005 storms. This was Uptown on the upstream, riverside corner of Jackson at Magazine.

NOLA 2005 Tri-State Shutter Swap 005 - Appliance

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You may have seen pictures of the post-Katrina "Refrigerator Graveyard" or "Appliance Graveyard". Most of these appliances had messages painted on them. Like the "warning, we will shoot" messages on some of the houses, it got lots of press. I've even seen a book entirely of photographs of these appliances. Of course it has a Wiki entry. People even went as discarded appliances for Halloween.

I'm sure this has become a tradition for all appliance disposal in the city. I'm also sure it will eventually lead to an annual parade and become yet another excuse for the city to get together and get sloshed.

According to "On Earth", after Katrina, twenty-two million tons of toxic waste needed to be dealt with in Louisiana alone. By comparison, New York's World Trade Center was 1.5 millions tons (albeit not spread over the whole state). In a "normal" year, LA produces 350,000 tons of garbage. A lot of this was in the form of refrigerators or other appliances with refrigerants or so-called "E-waste." Last I heard, Waste Management, Inc. (the "environmental" waste company) buried it all right outside a Vietnamese immigrant community and wrecked their groundwater (scroll down to "Debris" here). I haven't done tons of research to verify this.

I'm not sure what the date is here, or even if these numbers are supposed to be a date (almost looks like an IP address). Katrina hit on August 29th, 2005. I took this picture in March, 2006.

NOLA 2005 Tri-State Shutter Swap 004 - Flood Water Line

Please click on the image for a larger, more-detailed version.It was just enough water to get in and screw everything up.

The Live Oaks did just fine, but massive Magnolias, Crepe Myrtles by the score and anything submerged below the waterline for extended periods of time as these shrubs were didn't have a chance. This medical center is on Canal Street near Mid-City, which is the deepest part of the bowl that is New Orleans and thus had the deepest flood waters. The high rim of the bowl is the levee created by the river. It's true: you were safer from the flood if you were near water, either the lake to the North or river to the South. The World Trade Center is on Canal, but on the river, so it remained high and dry.

NOLA 2005 Tri-State Shutter Swap 003 - SPCA Warning

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NOLA 2005 Tri-State Shutter Swap 002 - Tree on House

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NOLA 2005 Tri-State Shutter Swap 001- Keep Moving

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Keep movin'. Nothing to see here.

This photo from http://groups.myspace.com/nolarefugees

Mostly aftermath pictures from Katrina & Rita.

"Shutter Swap" posts are mostly professionally-taken photos or photos found on the web, and largely offered without comment.