(OT) "Escape from NOLA" [slideshow]

This was posted on alt.mountain-bike. Pretty amazing. (I didn't read ALL
the captions, but it's hard not to as it progresses.) Good perspective on
how things deteriorated over time...

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slidesho...Uy=nyvoby&Ux=1

"Bill Sornson" wrote in message
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This was posted on alt.mountain-bike. Pretty amazing. (I didn't read ALL
the captions, but it's hard not to as it progresses.) Good perspective on
how things deteriorated over time...

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slidesho...Uy=nyvoby&Ux=1
What a brilliant effort. Puts a new perspective on what it must have been
like.

Bill, thanks for posting that ... off topic though it may be. That's
compelling stuff. I have a sister who graduated from Tulane and I'll be
forwarding that link to her.

--
Bob C.

"Of course it hurts. The trick is not minding that it hurts."
T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
"Bill Sornson" wrote in message
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This was posted on alt.mountain-bike. Pretty amazing. (I didn't read ALL
the captions, but it's hard not to as it progresses.) Good perspective on
how things deteriorated over time...

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slidesho...Uy=nyvoby&Ux=1

Bill Sornson posted:
This was posted on alt.mountain-bike. Pretty amazing. (I didn't read ALL
the captions, but it's hard not to as it progresses.) Good perspective on
how things deteriorated over time...

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slidesho...re&Uc=14EWB3ap....

Alas...album not found .

Austin

AustinMN wrote:
Bill Sornson posted:
This was posted on alt.mountain-bike. Pretty amazing. (I didn't
read ALL the captions, but it's hard not to as it progresses.) Good
perspective on how things deteriorated over time...

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slidesho...re&Uc=14EWB3ap....

Alas...album not found .

Yeah, a friend just e-mailed the same message. Guess they didn't appreciate
all the traffic?

Oh, well. It was quite something; if I see it again somewhere I'll post a
link...

AustinMN wrote:

Alas...album not found .

Some before, during, and after photos.

The photographer griping that the "media" only showed pictures of the
worst damage, and then he has a slide show of looters, damaged
buildings, destroyed cars, flooding -- in other words, the exact same
photos you see from AP and Reuters.

The photographer confessing his anxiety about being the only white
people in a sea of black people at the Convention Center.

RFM

Bob wrote:
Bill, thanks for posting that ... off topic though it may be. ...

Au contraire! I heard a radio interview with the editor of the
Times-Picayune where he explained that reporters were pedalling all
over town, collecting info, riding back to HQ and filing stories. And
that's how the levee breaches got discovered--on bikes. (Take that,
Vandespam.)

HTH

--Karen D.

Bill Sornson wrote:

Hardly. (And what percentage of the photos were of looting? Less than 5?
3?)

My wife told me this morning to go see the doctor about my sinus
infection. I'm being *way* too grouchy to her, the kids and the dogs.
And apparently on Usenet also.

One caption out of about 240 pics? (Struck me as being pretty honest about
a VERY tense situation at that point.)

I'm somewhat accustomed to hanging out with the brothahs. I appreciated
the honesty and realize that many Americans would probably feel the
same way. I also know that this anxiety is likewise felt by some
African-Americans when they're in the realm of the white folks.

RFM

Fritz M wrote:
Bill Sornson wrote:

Hardly. (And what percentage of the photos were of looting? Less
than 5? 3?)

My wife told me this morning to go see the doctor about my sinus
infection. I'm being *way* too grouchy to her, the kids and the dogs.
And apparently on Usenet also.

One caption out of about 240 pics? (Struck me as being pretty
honest about a VERY tense situation at that point.)

I'm somewhat accustomed to hanging out with the brothahs. I
appreciated the honesty and realize that many Americans would
probably feel the same way. I also know that this anxiety is likewise
felt by some African-Americans when they're in the realm of the white
folks.

No doubt. (I grew up in the Washington, DC area and played trombone in a
couple of otherwise-all-Black soul bands, so I'm no stranger to feeling like
Willy White Bread, either. Was always quite comfortable; never felt
threatened or intimidated.)

I thought the pictorial as told from a resident's POV was pretty
compelling -- especially the "immediate aftermath" stuff where everyone
thought they'd come through the storm nearly scott-free. (At that point /no
one/ knew the flood waters were coming.)

Oh well. Maybe it's cached somewhere?