Today as I took the girl to school, I spotted a pile of furniture on the curb, on Iberville just past Jeff Davis. Flooded furniture.…
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Today as I took the girl to school, I spotted a pile of furniture on the curb, on Iberville just past Jeff Davis. Flooded furniture.…
I took a walk down Tulane Avenue last week. I had my camera with me, and I took some pictures. Tulane Avenue is a major…
My friends PJ & Andrea are selling their flooded Broadmoor house on eBay. Their write-up is kind of funny and kind of sad. Best of…
Check out this presentation on the rebuilding of Xavier University (PDF, about three and half MB). Astonishing pictures of the flooded campus.
On the way home from a science fair in Algiers, my boss and I came across a rather astonishing sight. I don’t think the camera…
Mike Leonard and his lovely wife Mardi were in New Orleans for Jazz Fest. On Monday, I took them on the mandatory misery tour. We…
Some while back I signed up with the Preservation Resource Center to have our house inspected by an expert. Today, it happened. I was visited…
According to the Damage Assessment Wizard on the City of New Orleans website, our house “is NOT substantially damaged.” It also says: “You may continue…
Though my box of journals was left on the bottom floor of our house during the flooding of New Orleans, all is not lost. I…
My dear friend Mike Kaplan came by our house this afternoon to assess the electrical situation. You see, Mike is a licensed electrician, and right…
Tearing down plaster and lath walls is a lot slower-going than tearing down sheetrock. I’d like to think some of these old plaster walls could…
Ironically, Xy’s dollhouse was flooded to approximately the same level as our own, slightly larger house.
The room we’ve taken to calling the “craft room” in our house used to be a kitchen. The previous owners built a new kitchen upstairs,…
Bit of a breakthrough today. I finished cleaning the nasty, flood-damaged stuff out of our utility room. (Litter box full of month-old floodwater — yuck!)…
Just met with Roland Graybill, the adjuster for our flood claim, a lean, long-haired Southern dude. Affable. He took some measurements and some photos and…
I went back to my neighborhood today. The flood-damaged crap which Michael and I had hauled out from my house to the curb was still…
The scratchy throat passed. It was followed by a runny nose, which lasted for a day, but has passed now too. Many people have confirmed…
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…
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…