Here’s a video clip [QuickTime, 17MB] of our evacuation from New Orleans.
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Here’s a video clip [QuickTime, 17MB] of our evacuation from New Orleans.
Best news of the day: Clean water in my ‘hood! Mayor Ray Nagin announced Thursday that safe drinking water has been restored to New Orleans’…
This picture has been featured on the nola.com homepage for the last 24 hours: She’s cleaning up her home in Lakeview. Personally I find it…
I’m gearing up for another trip down to New Orleans, to take care of the stuff I didn’t finish last time. I’d hoped to drive…
On Sunday Xy and I drove out to my parents’ house, and then the four of us drove to Naperville, Illinois for a surprise party.…
We went up to Indianapolis Saturday for Abraham Christie’s first birthday party. It was good to see li’l Abe and also his parents, PJ and…
A few things that I didn’t post which still stand out in my mind from our recent trip to New Orleans: There were lots of…
Against all odds, we recovered the following items:
I’ve posted a bunch of pictures from the trip Michael and I made to New Orleans a few days ago. I’ve put ’em all in…
Holy — Mayor Nagin announced that the whole city of New Orleans, except for the Lower 9, will be open by Wednesday, October 5! That’s…
Michael took a great picture of me standing next to all the soggy, nasty junk we pulled out of the flooded lower floor of my…
There’s a new report on nola.com from the City of New Orleans, breaking down the status of sections of the city by ZIP code. My…
As we head north on I-55, I’m thinking of all the stuff I still need to do with my house in New Orleans: Need to…
We got back into Mid-City again today and spent the morning cleaning up my house. Michael doesn’t want to clean up his house before the…
I am exhausted — mentally, emotionally, physically. Michael and I got to our homes. We took pictures and tried to assess the damage and retrieved…
I am in Mid-City as I write this. We took the Crescent City Connection from Algiers about 7:30 this morning. We got across the river…
The Mid-City neighborhood in New Orleans remains offically closed, but people are getting in every day and posting reports and pictures to blogs and message…
Just read an article gives me hope that maybe our home is salvageable. Figures liberally quoted in the national press would suggest that much of…
A friend and co-worker sent this via e-mail. Hope she doesn’t mind me posting it here. I journeyed into Algiers this weekend to work on…
About a week before Katrina hit, I turned on WWOZ and heard some super heavy jazz organ. I thought it was pretty cool, and paid…