New Hurricane Katrina Photos

Take a look at what Katrina did to reader Jules' house - read the captions for an explanation.

The house was designed and built by Robert Seaton, an architect from New Orleans in the mid-1800's. The elevation of the land is 32 feet above sea level. The water came up up 4 to 5 feet in the house and smashed it like an eggshell and rocked it off its foundation.

I think the word is devastation.

Comments

[GrannyToad]

Right now I'm at a different kind of loss:

"About 47,000 people remain in Red Cross shelters, while 428,000 people live at hotels where the Red Cross pays the bill but expects government reimbursement, Red Cross spokesman Pat McCrummin said."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050930/ap_on_go_ot/hurricanes_red_cross

A half-million people in hotels & taxpayer reimbursement expected.

[DeeDee]

The free loader mentality Granny. The government has done a very good job of instilling it into much of the population in America. No work, just demand an handout. Not a hand up. Pathetic.

The house appears to have fireplaces in different positions in each photos and also a big tree to the right of the second devistation photo is odd.

[Cindi in PA]

The house appears to have fireplaces in different positions in each photos and also a big tree to the right of the second devistation photo is odd.

Posted by: DeeDee | Sep 30, 2005 10:10:53 PM

Fireplaces are in all the right places, it appears the after shots were taken from the back of the house, same for the position of the large tree you mention.

Thanks to the reader who provided these photos. I am sorry about your loss, I just cannot imagine sorting thru all of this. Glad you are at least safe. Beautiful home you had/have, are you going to rebuild?

[katy]

Boy, yhose sago palms sure do take a licking ... everything else, even the ground covers wiped out.

[Mac Diva]

Truth be told, I really can't get into lamenting the demise of antebellum houses, including Jefferson Davis.' I consider that they were built with slave labor and that pretty much settles it for me. Then, someone like Dee Dee comes along and heaps disdain on the poor people who did not own homes and are living in shelters or hotels, while expressing sympathy for the folks who could afford antebellum houses and are insured. The racism and classism inherent in such views make empathy impossible. However, apparently people who say these things haven't a clue to what they reveal about themselves.

[Traci Brown]

that is NOT the same house. Even if the pics were front of house and back of house, looking at the house from the front the driveway is on right. If you then looked at it from back the driveway would be on your left.

[Traci Brown]

And if they were both front of house pics....that roof in before pic had no gable in it the after pic roof does, aside from the chimney being in different places.

[lsu76]

TraciBrown...sorry to disagree...it is the same house. The roof structure, the hip roof tilted forward during the collapse. The house had three chimneys in the front section of the house. The chimenys are not in view until the roof roof flipped forward. I will add more photos to my fotki site. The point I was making was that the devataion on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is complete. Water reached an elevation of 37' above sea level. That makes the Indonesian sunami look like child play. My old hometown of Bay St. Louis is obliterated. The adjacent town of Waveland is gone.

While this may be the wrong photos to view, the Mississippi Gulf Coast looks like an atomic bomb hit it without the flame.

Unfortunatly, there was no intent to flame a civil war issue. Most of the houses were built by New Orleanians. SIdenote....Pass Christian was spared because it surrendered immediately when a Union gunship docked offshore. In fact, a great house house was leveled in the downtown area...it was known for its bedsheet surrender when the woman of the house hung her bedsheets out the window.

And Cindi in PA......the house is not mine...it is my wife's family's home...it was bought after Hurricane Camille in 1969. And it will not be rebuilt. The entire row of houses have been wiped out along this drive. An entire history of different sizes and styles of homes have been wiped out....a great cultural and historical loss...despite what others may say.

[tennesseetraci]

Sorry about your wife's family loss, if indeed the same house. We took the long way back from a cruise from Houston and drove all along the Mississippi coast, Pass Christian was gorgeous. But there is an old saying, "Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see". Pics can be misleading. I still have doubts. Notwithstanding though, my heart goes out to all of you who have lost so much.

[tennesseetraci]

Oh, it was May when we went through there. We spent the night in New Orleans and drove through Waveland too. I didn't get to spend very much time in those areas, but I am thankful I did get to see it at least before the devastation. Again, I do feel deeply for ya'll's losses.