Hitting Close to Home
This picture, which is all over the place for the past couple days, is actually the street I lived on during my last year in New Orleans. Orange circle to be exact. The middle of the picture is a wide, park-like median that runs down to Lake Pontchartrain. It's a very nice area when not submerged. My heart is absolutely broken to see a city I came to love suffering this disaster.
August 31st, 2005 at 9:06 pm
“Looters used garbage cans and inflatable mattresses to float away with food, blue jeans, tennis shoes, TV sets — even guns. Outside one pharmacy, thieves commandeered a forklift and used it to push up the storm shutters and break through the glass. The driver of a nursing-home bus surrendered the vehicle to thugs after being threatened.
Police said their first priority remained saving lives, and mostly just stood by and watched the looting. On Tuesday, an officer who tried to intervene was shot in the head and critically wounded.”