Nix Bits

Got some new pics from Greg of our house up. Surprisingly, the tree that leans over the rear of our house did not fall in. So that’s a tiny bit of good news. There’s an extensive set of unlabelled pictures from Greg starting here as well. I may label some of them later. Mostly pics […]

This post from another blog hits the nail on the head. Some of the political squabbling and national news media coverage has been infuriating. There’s been little in the way of context or perspective in most of it. There’s plenty of blame to go around for the failures post-Katrina but there’s been no discussion of […]

Jennifer recently received some pictures from her Mid-City office location. I spotted this posting on nola.com’s Mid-City forum. It clearly referenced Jennifer’s office. The lawyer with the office next to hers had been there. Jennifer responded to the post and the lawyer sent her these pictures. I left out two more pictures since they were […]

So Jennifer and I have been sick the last few days up here in Madison and not sleeping so great. We woke up Saturday not long after Rita made landfall and flipped on the TV. Of course they had the usual shots of reports standing out in the wind and rain trying to impress us […]

This set of pictures came from early in the crisis. The photographer was working with Search and Rescue and is a native of New Orleans. He talks about passing specific locations where he was born or where his parents went to school. I’m looking at the pictures and not being there but feeling the same […]

From the LA Times: ” Louisiana has the most stable and firmly rooted population in the nation; more than 77% of New Orleans residents were born in the state” For some reason, I found that interesting.

First picture of our house. 9/15/2004. Water line about a foot More at http://www.scottharney.com/album/Katrina/. Not much else to say….

I go through a range of emotions, but basically there are two sides to it. On the one side, I am hopeful and optimistic. Yes, our home was damaged, but it doesn’t appear to be totalled. We have flood and homeowner’s insurance. We evacuated with all of our photos, important papers, clothes including suits and […]

Jon at Cork and Bottle hits the nail on the head with his comments yesterday morning. Click here to read them. Definitely know how you feel Jon (I’d link straight to it, but there aren’t anchors on the page to individual stories. As Jon notes at the top, MS Word is a lousy HTML editor).

Our neighbor, Charlie, was able to get in because his company supports Cox Cable in the city. Charlie lives about 2 blocks down from us, so there’s no pictures of our block or house here. No surprises in these pictures based on what we’ve read so far from corknola.com and elsewhere. Charlie’s been a good […]