Loyola: where we konked out.
the registration experience!
Audubon! Lots of time spent in here.
Melissa keeping us on task.
Our outgoing UFSWC Board
More Loyola....
St Charles Street, “High and in Denial”, did not flood.
Those great street cars!
St. Charles Avenue
Audubon Park by Loyola
Johanna & Jeff from C4 give a tour.
At the Latino Farmers Co-op Community garden
Kathia (in yellow) presenting.
small plots still yield lots
killing weeds! non-toxic cardboard!
Leslie in the garden!
lower Ninth - used to be a neighborhood.
Common Ground Collective
101 yr old owner moved into that new house that day!
Neglected to get this gentleman's name!
Free Services!
Shakoor!
Dark! Brass Band unloading.
converted Walgreens, now a church!
Folks came out to join our party!
Dancing up a sweat! John?
Omar & Ajowa!
Vema, & Ashley?
Comanche Dancer
Paul - nice guy that came out to dance!
another gentleman that came out to dance!
Those two amazing boys!!!
staring down the dancers!
Our new board hopefuls...
Gardening at the New Orleans Food Cooperative
from the street
before.....
and almost done....raising 2 beds.
Laura & Ashley!
Photo op!!
The guys inspect the wall!
quick pics from the expressway.
Entering Common Ground
brick houses did not get wiped out.
A Common Ground building (and Ajowa!)
wish list
Erin & Tim at Common Ground
The "Brad Pitt" trailers
Tim's back!
Common Grounds beautiful back yard!
the empty neighborhood on one side of CG
fuzzy, but beautiful
An informal presentation by Sakura Kone begins at CG.
When a friend says come help, Say NO! 3 years later!
Malik Rahim: our excellent tour guide.
On a house foundation: 14 ft. storm surge came thru here.
Thought this was a single demolished house....
...not one house but three smushed together.
empty foundations
Yasin & Ashley
10 seconds to reach the overpass or you drown.
the other side of the levee
abandoned warehouse
Gaps between the short levee "walls" not filled. Water will force through.
At the start of the new levee.
The big gap at the levee's start where water will pour in & get trapped!
More of what used to be neighborhoods.
Beautiful brick church, not destroyed.
You can clearly see where water sat for a time.
worst damage is this hole!
structure surrounding outside of church
about 2 feet above vent: storm surge height, settled above door, slowly dropped for weeks.
going towards a deck built to monitor freon from dump: TV's,cars & frig's.
the deck overlooks 60 - 65 miles of dead cedar swamp: killed by salt water.
Did spot fish!
all food dumped in distance: raised dump truck can be seen on top, just off center!
More empty area in the neighborhoods.
Leaving Common Ground
Malik w/mostly empty 9th ward behind him.
