Photo essay from New Orleans
09 September 2005, 05:58 PM
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Interesting to see how it took 48 Hours+ for the water to rise. Explains a little why it took a while for people to appreciate how bad it was.
Certainly on the 1st day after the storm you'd be forgiven for thinking it was just a case of siginicant window replacement and sort the power out from those pics.
Certainly on the 1st day after the storm you'd be forgiven for thinking it was just a case of siginicant window replacement and sort the power out from those pics.
10 September 2005, 10:09 AM
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Interesting to see a white man's experience. No Superdome or Convention centre pics. No pics of the real suffering and squalour that was going on just a few blocks away.
11 September 2005, 11:42 AM
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Interesting to see a white man's experience. No Superdome or Convention centre pics. No pics of the real suffering and squalour that was going on just a few blocks away.
You can tell from his commentary that the guy had the sense to avoid the areas where the suffering and squalour were, merely by steering away from the sound of gunfire.
Those pics are amazing
They also kind of highlight the fact that the authorities had 48 hours to do something about evacuating the area but didn't. They must have been aware of a, the breaches in the sea defences, and b, the fact that they couldn't be repaired, pretty early on
11 September 2005, 11:44 AM
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There is also a pretty good chance that the photo log would be half that length if a, The funding for improving the sea defences hadn't been pulled, and b, over 60% of the area's National Guard contingent weren't illegally occupying an arab state
11 September 2005, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by CrisPDuk
A hotel worker from Nicaragua called Alvaro is hardly likely to be white UB
I should have said a non african-american POV. I guess I expected more graphic images, but if I'd been there with an expensive camera and armed anarchy going on a few blocks away I expect I would have avoided it too. 
11 September 2005, 01:18 PM
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At one point he did say that him and his mate were like "grains of salt in a pepper pot." I wonder what he was referring to there then?
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Originally Posted by Clarebabes
At one point he did say that him and his mate were like "grains of salt in a pepper pot." I wonder what he was referring to there then?
Non looters amongst a sea of looters is how I read it.
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