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reynardoand I'm worried about what Hurricane Katrina will do to it.
A rather large but informative file can be found here.
And my memories of New Orleans start here:
and continue below
Despite being known as the French Quarter, the place was owned for a long time by the Spanish. Most of the old buildings date from after the great fire of 1788, and were built in the Spanish style.
Alas, a lot of these shots were taken on a night tour of the city. When we got in, the concierge at the hotel gave us a map with various areas marked out. "Here's safe enough in the daytime and should be OK if you're careful at night, this part's not good at night, do not go here (the cemetary) without being in a proper guided group."
Turns out the cemetary is right beside what is now an ugly Housing Development, the Iberville Housing Projects, with all that that entails. The Development was built over the remains of Storyville after the Navy bulldozed it in 1917.
The graves sink slowly into the marshy soil. The whole city started sinking from the first moment they started building on it. Apparently parts of the city are between 1 and 20 feel below sea level. Most of the sinking has been caused by the pumping out of the groundwater to try and keep the damp from rising. They say now with the hurricane that there might end up being a 30 foot lake in the centre of the city.
The wildlife is lovely there - we wonder how badly the Bayou is going to be affected. I should imagine the parts that are still tree-lined will be damaged but will recover, while the parts with great chanels cut out are going to be ripped to pieces.
The platform over the shark tank collapsed about 5 days after we went there. Information can be found here There is still no truth to the rumour that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lederhosen sports a collection of "Interesting Bolts", let alone the three specially marked "N. O. 2002"
I do hope the place recovers.
A rather large but informative file can be found here.
And my memories of New Orleans start here:
and continue below
Despite being known as the French Quarter, the place was owned for a long time by the Spanish. Most of the old buildings date from after the great fire of 1788, and were built in the Spanish style.
Alas, a lot of these shots were taken on a night tour of the city. When we got in, the concierge at the hotel gave us a map with various areas marked out. "Here's safe enough in the daytime and should be OK if you're careful at night, this part's not good at night, do not go here (the cemetary) without being in a proper guided group."
Turns out the cemetary is right beside what is now an ugly Housing Development, the Iberville Housing Projects, with all that that entails. The Development was built over the remains of Storyville after the Navy bulldozed it in 1917.
The graves sink slowly into the marshy soil. The whole city started sinking from the first moment they started building on it. Apparently parts of the city are between 1 and 20 feel below sea level. Most of the sinking has been caused by the pumping out of the groundwater to try and keep the damp from rising. They say now with the hurricane that there might end up being a 30 foot lake in the centre of the city.
The wildlife is lovely there - we wonder how badly the Bayou is going to be affected. I should imagine the parts that are still tree-lined will be damaged but will recover, while the parts with great chanels cut out are going to be ripped to pieces.
The platform over the shark tank collapsed about 5 days after we went there. Information can be found here There is still no truth to the rumour that
lederhosen sports a collection of "Interesting Bolts", let alone the three specially marked "N. O. 2002"I do hope the place recovers.
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Date: 2005-08-29 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-31 05:33 am (UTC)Helloooo! Hello Reynardo! I am the spirit of photography! I am most pleased with your contributions to my realm. And I would also be pleased if you sent a box of TimTams to Dylan, and/or a bunch of handwritten letters from mutual friends! He's yet to receive a card and hasn't figured out what's taking Canada Post so long to deliver what he thought you said you'd sent. I like his camera!
WoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo...