A panorama of the area washed away by the break in the Industrial Canal.
This was shot from the second floor porch of a cinder block house that
was protected from the flood by a barge that washed through the canal levee. This barge can be seen on many news photographs and videos of the flood. You can see the house I shot from just past the barge on the side opposite of the canal break.
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This pile of bicycles was part of the debris awaiting disposal in the
9th Ward. The ubiquitous Mardi Gras beads make this uniquely a southern
Louisiana scene.
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The structure to the left is the street from a bridge over the Industrial Canal. The camera was placed on the edge of the canal levee, looking away from the canal. There is a cut through the elevated street just off camera to the left. The breach in the levee was on the other side of the highway, and water rushed through the cut, sweeping this boat and trailer through the cut and wrapping it around the telephone pole. The water level was about as high as the one way sign on the pole.
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This is a sculpture build by a 9th Ward Resident, probably assembled
from Marti Gras materials. The spray painted symbols are those used by
rescue workers to show that a house has been searched, who searched it,
and whether there are bodies inside.
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A Mack truck turned on its side among the Hurricane Katrina debris in the 9th Ward.
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One view of the barge that washed through the Industrial Canal break.
These are the remains of houses it crushed.
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Another view of the barge. It settled onto the school bus as the water drained from the neighborhood.
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The desolation of the cleared street where all of the housing was destroyed
by the rushing water from the Industrial Canal break.
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Looking across the 9th Ward parallel to the Industrial Canal where the break occurred.
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Seeking donations for the clean-up.
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One of the tens of thousands of water line leaks in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina broke up the water and gas delivery pipes.
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