NOLA - The Ninth Ward
April 9, 2006
The ninth ward - utter desolation. How can I write what I'm yet to experience in my own heart.
April 10, 2006
Yesterday is something so hard to put into words. There was one house that we went in - about an inch and a half of caked dried mud over the whole floor, furniture in shambles - in a part of the city that had been totally immersed in water. There was a church, once holding the saints of God who came to worship, now laying in ruins. The streets were quiet. No one lived there anymore.
There were houses that had trailers parked in front in some of the lesser damaged areas of town. People trying to make sense of it all and trying to find a home again in all the rubble. But in the ninth ward there were no trailers. No rescue attempts. Tourists driving through to see what two hurricanes had obliterated seven months ago.
Houses swept off their foundation. Houses gone, no traces of a foundation. Cars underneath houses, much like in "The Wizard of Oz" when Dorothy's house had landed on the wicked witch. People dead, missing, misplaced. Mortgages owed on houses they will never live in again.
The ninth ward - utter desolation. How can I write what I'm yet to experience in my own heart.
April 10, 2006
Yesterday is something so hard to put into words. There was one house that we went in - about an inch and a half of caked dried mud over the whole floor, furniture in shambles - in a part of the city that had been totally immersed in water. There was a church, once holding the saints of God who came to worship, now laying in ruins. The streets were quiet. No one lived there anymore.
There were houses that had trailers parked in front in some of the lesser damaged areas of town. People trying to make sense of it all and trying to find a home again in all the rubble. But in the ninth ward there were no trailers. No rescue attempts. Tourists driving through to see what two hurricanes had obliterated seven months ago.
Houses swept off their foundation. Houses gone, no traces of a foundation. Cars underneath houses, much like in "The Wizard of Oz" when Dorothy's house had landed on the wicked witch. People dead, missing, misplaced. Mortgages owed on houses they will never live in again.
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