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[theweaselking]

"New Orleans: Nine Months Later"

A photoessay of a cleanup/repair crew in the ruin of New Orleans. Taken last week.

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[vagabond27.livejournal.com]

well, at least some churches do some good.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

A bunch of students and faculty from my (Christian) university spent their spring break in New Orleans cleaning out mold-infested houses.

[mrbankies.livejournal.com]

The irony of your statement is that the tourist areas - The French Quarter, Garden District, Business District - all came through relatively unscathed as they were all above sea level unlike places like the 9th parish were the flooding was really bad. If you went now, I don't think you'd notice much difference.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be there at the end of June for the ALA annual conference. Since we'll mostly be in the Quarter/convention areas I have a feeling it's going to look pretty much like when I was last there, almost 20 years ago.

We're doing some volunteer work, though I suspect mine's going to be in a library. I'm strong enough to do heavier labor, but I also know that it takes me several days to acclimate enough to heat that I can do something like shovel wreckage, of which there's still quite a bit going on.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

"The fire next time" is actually part of a quote from an old spiritual, referencing the fact that the world's supposed to end by fire, not flood; the verse goes something like

And God gave Noah the rainbow sign.
No more water, the fire next time.

It's also the title of a 1963 book on racial division in America.