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February 13, 2007
More fucking weather
I tried to get over to northwest Carrollton on the way to the doctor this morning, but traffic was so jammed on Carrollton Ave. due to all the power outages that I gave up.
This afternoon I managed to get in, and found Karen, whose family and house is OK but who needs a new windshield on her car. She fared better than a lot of her neighbors. It looks bad there, but just in spots. Four out of five houses look OK, and then the fifth house looks like something you usually see in the Lower Ninth Ward. A lot of folks over there are looking pretty shell-shocked, thinking that they have to do the whole insurance/FEMA thing over again, and are wondering where they'll live now. The Salvation Army is out in force. FEMA is nowhere around. C-Ray and Shelly and Mitch have all put in appearances and then ran off, but right now it's mostly a couple of debris crews and Entergy crews and a whole lot of depressed people over there.
SELA Task Force 1 came through after the storm and so people have fresh orange X's on their houses dated 2/13.
Laureen has some good pictures here. It's weird, we've become so numb, so immune to pictures of destroyed houses, it's hard to remind yourself that these houses were fine just yesterday, and today the neighborhood looks like 2005 all over again.
Update: Another flickr set from howieluvsus.
Posted by ray at February 13, 2007 4:00 PM | Permalink
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Heartbreaking. Just heartbreaking.
G-d or whoever? It's way past time to cut this shit out. Seriously.
Posted by: Carol Elaine at February 13, 2007 5:37 PM
It's a good thing none of us believe in hellfire or damnnation, huh?
'bout all i can say is, i'm just glad you and yours are safe.
Posted by: Elvis at February 14, 2007 9:11 AM
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