August 27, 2006
New Orleans Then and Now
One year after Hurricane Katrina struck the United States' Gulf Coast, the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a patchwork of recovery and neglect, as seen in these pairs of then-and-now photographs.
At top, cars cross over New Orleans' Industrial Canal to the city's Lower Ninth Ward in July 2006. Below, two men paddle by the same bridge on August 31, 2005, two days after Katrina made landfall, eventually causing levees to fail, flooding much of the city.
From The National Geographic: More here.
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We are still rebuilding here and it will be years before things are back to what one might call "normal." You can still drive through the city and see the flood lines and still see houses being gutted.
The Times-Picayune is of course doig lots of stories on the anniversary and for those wanting some more info I advise checking it out online through nola.com.
The most interesting thing to me living here right now is the change in demographics of the New Orleans Metro area. We now have a large hispanic population which has moved into the city. I wonder what affect this will have on the city in the long run.
For me though, as I came to learn in school, New Orleans is a city of constant change and mutation. Bringing in new ethnic groups is what the city does and it just absorbs them into its history and way of life.
Posted by: Casey Moore | Aug 27, 2006 10:42:04 AM
Ipaige davis think that thay should ree bild meworleans back . and ree bild it right and bater then befour.Iwant to come back to my home town whear iam from and whear i lived all my life.Ijuust want to go back.That all is that tomuche to aks four.paige davis
Posted by: paige davis | Nov 7, 2007 10:02:39 AM
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