Fond memories of New Orleans 2006
Posted in travel, gay, Vacation on September 6th, 2006Today I’m going to write about our tour of the 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish as well as a little bit about Southern Decadence 2006.
Our last day in New Orleans, our friends that live there drove us through the 9th Ward and St. Bernard parish. We have heard much about these sites over the year following Katrina, but we wanted to see for ourselves. Though just over a year ago it was a thriving middle working class community, today the 9th Ward looks like it has been abandoned for years. Everywhere you look there are foundations but no homes, or there are homes clumped together with no foundations. 
Often, you can see cars or trucks sticking out from underneath houses. The devastation is mind boggling. The shear magnitude of the destruction is much more dramatic than what a 30 second drive by a news team to be used as filler for the evening news can really convey. While there are a few homes scattered throughout this area where the homes are fairly intact and the families have returned to try and rebuild, the majority of what you can see is not quite as uplifting. Read the rest of this entry »
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