INCREDIBLE BEFORE AND AFTER
NEW ORLEANS PHOTO GALLERY

From Five Days with Katrina courtesy of Marsi's Blog:

On Sunday August 28 I woke up at 5 in the morning to go to my morning job at the Chateu Sonesta Hotel. The night before, we had been warned that Hurricane Katrina was preying her eyes upon us. In the history of New Orleans, there has NEVER been a direct hit by a hurricane. In everyone's mind, this hurricane would follow the same path that hundreds of past storms had done before. However, because of the size of the storm and ferocity which it tore through South Florida, the citizens of the The Big Easy prepared themselves as best they could... this is my tale of the events...

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These are some really good, high resolution photos, 197 of them. I know that pictures can't really do justice to what was going on there in the wake of Katrina, but this is probably as close as you're going to get if you weren't there. Here's a sample:


Some streets in the Quarter, especially those close to Canal, began to overflow

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