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Photo of the day: New Orleans after Katrina

by Elizabeth Seward (RSS feed) on Oct 26th 2011 at 5:00PM

People have been talking about New Orleans differently since Hurricane Katrina. No matter how the city's name slips into conversation, the disaster named Katrina is typically addressed and typically, it must be. Anyone who knows NOLA will vouch for the tremendous damage caused by this storm and the circumstances surrounding it. But many people who know NOLA will also confess: the city still has life in it; New Orleans is still teeming with an energy exclusive to the city. And as an homage to the trip I'm taking to New Orleans tomorrow, I am posting this photo of New Orleans post-Katrina, taken by Arla Parker.

I'm visiting New Orleans through next week, generally speaking, for Voodoo Festival and Halloween. But a broader reason for my trip is my desire to keep up with the city. I have been visiting the Big Easy regularly since 2005, but my first visit to the city was exactly a month before Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans has gripped me since the first visit and I look forward to exploring the paths this upcoming trip leads me down. Have you been to New Orleans since Katrina? What are your thoughts?

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Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Festivals and Events, Photos, North America, United States

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Greg Gross Oct 27th 2011 7:20PM

I haven't been home since Katrina. My last time there was as an embedded journalist with a CA National Guard unit, which coincidentally was assigned to my old neighborhood. All the familiar streets, all the old haunts -- I saw them from a boat.

A part of me is desperate to go back. Another part of me fears what I will find --or perhaps more to the point, no longer find -- when I go back.

Jolie Oct 29th 2011 10:08AM

Greg,
The city is doing very well. It is different, but the same. It has more energy than the pre-Katrina NOLA. Yes, there is more work to be done, but there always will be. What neighborhood are you from?