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Thursday, October 3, 2002
I was pretty hung over on Thursday, Oct.3rd. Luckily we had stocked up on aspirin.
When I made it out of the house to survey hurricane damage, things looked shaken, but not destroyed. |
 These
tree branches in the French Quarter had broken. |
 Many
businesses were closed on Thursday in anticipation of the damage and
hazard of working in hurricane weather. |
 A
custom-fit window-board tells the hurricane history of the French Quarter. |
 The
riverfront was dry and clean, but still being hit by high winds. |
 Still
on the riverfront, this juvenile tree didn't make it. |
| Friday, October 4, 2002 |
 On
Friday morning tourism rose from the dead. |
 Wendy
and I drove around the Park District. We stopped to eat at the Bluebird
Cafe.
Here is the gate into Audubon Place |
 Loyola
University. Not far from Tulane University. |
 This
was the greatest example of damage I saw first-hand. This tree smacked
into a house, killing the rain gutters. |
 Wet
streets in front of an old store. |
 The
view from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. On my way
back to Sacramento.I was going to call Steve and Elise to give me a ride home from the airport, but Alicia Relles was on board the same flight as me, so I got a ride home with her! Excellent! Whoo! The trip was pretty exciting. My first trip to the south. I'm sure it won't be the last. Thanks to Wendy for inviting me. Thanks also to Mike Taylor, Christine Zardecki and others who mailed suggested activities and photo-ops. Shawn Castrillo, sorry I didn't hook up with you, things got pretty wacky at the end of the trip. |
Other Travelogues: Minneapolis 2001 | Burning Man 2001 | Europe 1999 | Costa Rica 2000 | New York 2002
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