Sights like this are still very common. This is a church in Algiers. This area sustained mostly wind damage.
This pile of rubble is what is left of the home that were at "Ground Zero" when the levee broke in the Lower 9th. Every home within about six blocks of the levee was totally washed away.
This is the foundation slab that is left from a home washed away when the levee broke. This actually was a neighborhood in the Lower 9th this time a year ago. There were some homes where not even the foundation was left.
Smashed vehicles like this one, along with boats, are found littered throughout the Lower 9th Ward.
This is a home in the St. Bernard Perish. The water entered one side of the house and then blew out the wall on the other side. There are several homes just like this one.
All of the homes in the flood zone are marked like this. The upper numbers (9-30) are the date the home was searched. The letters and numbers to the left (SA-2) is the unit that searched the home and the number on the bottom (0) is the number of bodies recovered in the home. Unfortunately there were several homes where this bottom number was not 0.
These next two photos are what the inside of the flooded homes look like. Imagine a 30 foot wave of water hitting and flooding your home floating everything around for three weeks and then setting everything as it drains. This is what it looks like.
When our team goes in August our job will be to totally clean out homes like this. Everything has to come out to get rid of the black mold.
This was the way of escape for many people in St. Bernard. The water rose so quickly that people were forced to their attic and had to escape my making a hole in the roof before the attic flooded.
This shrimp boat was located in the middle of a neighborhood in St. Bernard. It gives you an idea of how deep and how much force the water had. This boat was 3/4 to one full mile away from any body of water.
5 comments:
It is good of you to help them out! I sent money, but I live in Florida and volunteer for the red cross here with our hurricanes
The American Red Cross is a great organization to donate time and money to.
Those are amazing photos. I wish the media would still put the spotlight on N.O. I had no idea it was still in this condition.
Bless you for helping with this.
God bless you for going to New Orleans. Does not look like any government entity is going to help.
There was talk of the levee being blown in this neighborhood to save other, whiter, areas of NO. It does look like a wall of water, rather than the leaking of a levee did the damage.
Thanks!
The Sounthern Baptist Convention is a great organization to donate time and money to
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