This week I am back in New Orleans. Things on the project I am working on have slowed down quite a bit and today I had a chance to go for a drive and take some pictures of St. Bernard’s Parish (County), which was one of the hardest hit areas.

This is the approximate path I took on my drive.

Here are a few pictures that I took along the way. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and well… just look.
Welcome to St. Bernard’s Parish
Abandoned Truck in the middle of the street
House with a notice warning thieves
Typical Piles of trash along the highway
Entire neighborhoods look like this.
Buildings across the street from where I am working (note all the broken and boarded up windows.
The building I am working out of, which was under about 4 feet of water (For my fellow geeks, the sixth floor is a data center and the entire building was without power for nearly two weeks after Katrina, which obviously wasn’t good for business.)

Still there is history and beauty. I took this picture a few weeks ago of the famous St. Louis Cathedral which is basically the center of the French Quarter.

What amazed me the most is how bad things look nine months after Hurricane Katrina. The devastation in this city is incredible and the best way to describe it to people who have not been here is to imagine the entire metropolitan Milwaukee area flooded and then hit with 500 tornadoes. I’m really not exaggerating. The pictures above are not the worst of the worst, they are pretty typical of the majority of the city.

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