Nix Bits

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 […]

Last pic before leaving, Sunday August 28, ~11:20am. Sat image of flooding from NOAA.gov. Still have a roof by the look of things. From the floodmap at http://mapper.cctechnol.com/floodmap.php and information gleaned from http://www.corknola.com, we’ve got a few feet of water in the house. *sigh*

So I guess I’ll start at the beginning. Or at least where I perceive that to be. Friday was a normal day for us. Katrina was in the Southeastern Gulf and all indications were that she was heading to the already well-battered Florida panhandle. By late in the workday, some of my coworkers were fearing […]