Back from New Orleans

This nice old home near the Lakefront on the WWest End shows the characteristic signs of the flood. There's the waterline, halfway up the front door, the screen door leaning on the front steps, and the marks showing it's been checked by rescuers. And all the grass and small shrubs in the front lawn are dead.



And this is what it looks like in the neutral ground across the street. Giant piles of debris, this one mainly branches and tree trunks. It's about twenty-five or thirty feet high.