NOLA.com: "The refrigerator graveyard"
Truly bizarre imagery. It has to be this way, of course.
Just wrap your refrigerator in duct tape and never, never ever open it again.
Friday, October 21, 2005
Friday, October 14, 2005
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Cleaning Flood-damaged Homes
Guide to cleaning flood-damaged homes from LSU Cooperative Extension.
Residents of the Lower 9th Ward let in yesterday -- this is one of the worst-hit places in NO - interestingly some of the older houses on piers look like the external structure is salvageable, although I doubt the city will let them be salvaged.
A lot of older houses in New Orleans were built from flatboats that were floated down the river carrying farm produce, because it just wasn't economical to go back up the river in them. That style house, long and narrow, all wood, seems to have been the type that survived.
Guide to cleaning flood-damaged homes from LSU Cooperative Extension.
Residents of the Lower 9th Ward let in yesterday -- this is one of the worst-hit places in NO - interestingly some of the older houses on piers look like the external structure is salvageable, although I doubt the city will let them be salvaged.
A lot of older houses in New Orleans were built from flatboats that were floated down the river carrying farm produce, because it just wasn't economical to go back up the river in them. That style house, long and narrow, all wood, seems to have been the type that survived.
Saturday, October 08, 2005
: "Nagin proposes big expansion of gambling"
NAGIN PROPOSES ENTERTAINMENT, GAMBLING MECCA
Aw, jeez. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it gets worse.
This morning my brother, Val, and brother-in-law, David, both told me in separate conversations that Charity Hospital and University Hospital have been condemned, and that Charity Hospital will be rebuilt in Baton Rouge.
That's crazy, I said. Charity Hospital has been there since the 1930's.
Not so, says Val, it's been there since the 1830's, was constructed to deal with a cholera epidemic.
But the poor people in New Orleans need Big Charity. What are they going to do without it? Why are they doing this? I asked.
Politics, they said. It's all politics.
I hate the way people in Louisiana say that. Like it's a force of nature you can't do anything about. The fix is in. You can't fight city hall.
David says that maybe it's a good thing since half the people in New Orleans are living in Baton Rouge now. Which does make some kind of sense, but still, what will the poor people in New Orleans do?
And now it seems to be coming clear. That's prime real estate. Turn it into casinos. Make some money.
I hate gambling. I hate people who gamble. It's an irrational prejudice of mine, I admit. But tearing Big Charity and University Hospital (former LSU Medical Center) is going to rip the still-bleeding heart out of New Orleans and replace it with the kind of people who . . . . well, come to think about it, a lot of the real people of New Orleans love to gamble. They love to go to Las Vegas. *Shudder.*
In some ways, New Orleans has always reminded me of a hooker, getting further and further down on her luck.
Where will the other New Orleans, the New Orleans that works, the one that runs the rigs and the riverboats and the docks and the big ships and the chemical plants, go? I guess up the river to Baton Rouge?
They're going to continue to turn New Orleans into XXX-rated Disneyland for sleazoid adults.
They don't know what they've got, what they've had, what they've lost, and some of them will never know, and never care.
This was their shining hour to reclaim her -- and they're going to put more makeup on her and put her back on the street.
NAGIN PROPOSES ENTERTAINMENT, GAMBLING MECCA
Aw, jeez. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it gets worse.
This morning my brother, Val, and brother-in-law, David, both told me in separate conversations that Charity Hospital and University Hospital have been condemned, and that Charity Hospital will be rebuilt in Baton Rouge.
That's crazy, I said. Charity Hospital has been there since the 1930's.
Not so, says Val, it's been there since the 1830's, was constructed to deal with a cholera epidemic.
But the poor people in New Orleans need Big Charity. What are they going to do without it? Why are they doing this? I asked.
Politics, they said. It's all politics.
I hate the way people in Louisiana say that. Like it's a force of nature you can't do anything about. The fix is in. You can't fight city hall.
David says that maybe it's a good thing since half the people in New Orleans are living in Baton Rouge now. Which does make some kind of sense, but still, what will the poor people in New Orleans do?
And now it seems to be coming clear. That's prime real estate. Turn it into casinos. Make some money.
I hate gambling. I hate people who gamble. It's an irrational prejudice of mine, I admit. But tearing Big Charity and University Hospital (former LSU Medical Center) is going to rip the still-bleeding heart out of New Orleans and replace it with the kind of people who . . . . well, come to think about it, a lot of the real people of New Orleans love to gamble. They love to go to Las Vegas. *Shudder.*
In some ways, New Orleans has always reminded me of a hooker, getting further and further down on her luck.
Where will the other New Orleans, the New Orleans that works, the one that runs the rigs and the riverboats and the docks and the big ships and the chemical plants, go? I guess up the river to Baton Rouge?
They're going to continue to turn New Orleans into XXX-rated Disneyland for sleazoid adults.
They don't know what they've got, what they've had, what they've lost, and some of them will never know, and never care.
This was their shining hour to reclaim her -- and they're going to put more makeup on her and put her back on the street.
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Cork & Bottle Fine Wines
Cork & Bottle opening up a second location in Baton Rouge, 3911 Perkins Road.
Ya'll gotta stop by. Tell them you love their blog.
The Interdictor: "Survival of New Orleans Blog"
These guys rock. (Click on the image if it's too small to read.)
Pile of mud may be clue to levee failure [Times Picayune]
This has the hallmarks of a lawsuit of legendary proportions. If the cause of the levee failure was bad design rather than poor maintenance or Act of God -- wonder if the statue of limitations has run?
This has the hallmarks of a lawsuit of legendary proportions. If the cause of the levee failure was bad design rather than poor maintenance or Act of God -- wonder if the statue of limitations has run?
Rumors of deaths greatly exaggerated
Widely reported attacks false or unsubstantiated [Times Picayune]
99% of the rumors were false. Read the whole thing.
Widely reported attacks false or unsubstantiated [Times Picayune]
99% of the rumors were false. Read the whole thing.
Looka! | Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
Chuck Taggart's blog is essential. C'est tout.
Chuck Taggart's blog is essential. C'est tout.
UPDATE ON THE MISSING AND THE LOST
Nancy Collins writes that Doug Wirth and his family evacuated and suffered little damage to their homes.
Austin Leslie [fried chicken genius] died and Mary Hansen [snowball genius] died -- I assume of a broken heart.
And Angelo Brocatos was under seven feet of water and the insurance doesn't begin to cover the damage.
The live oaks in City Park were inundated with salt water and may not make it.
I might have a broken heart, too! When I read the sad news, it sure feels like it.
Nancy Collins writes that Doug Wirth and his family evacuated and suffered little damage to their homes.
Austin Leslie [fried chicken genius] died and Mary Hansen [snowball genius] died -- I assume of a broken heart.
And Angelo Brocatos was under seven feet of water and the insurance doesn't begin to cover the damage.
The live oaks in City Park were inundated with salt water and may not make it.
I might have a broken heart, too! When I read the sad news, it sure feels like it.
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