Hokay, coho

I hope the pix traveled ok. One is probably duplicated, since I couldn't remember for sure what I had sent.

017 A Lutheran church in the Algiers neighborhood. The steeple was so cleanly taken off and dumped on the corner that it looks like they just put it out for the trash.

015 the distribution tunnel at Common Ground Relief (commongroundrelief.org). Semis come by regularly with pallets of donated goods -- cleaning equipment, sanitary products, food, clothing, miscellaneous. People come by every day to take what they need, sign-in/honor system.There seems to be almost always the same amount of goods, so things are going out at about the same rate as they are coming in.

019 Crane. Since the electricity was off for many days -- weeks in some places -- everyone had to abandon their refrigerators, and everywhere there are refrigerators duct-taped shut, lining the streets. Finally crews are coming around and disposing of them. The crane pictured had just loaded a couple of refrigerators and was picking up a smaller piece when the photo was snapped.

032 Boat. A common sight -- the boat moored on a sidewalk and tied to a traffic sign

033 cars. An entire parking lot, at the Justice Department downtown. All of these cars are dead, and covered with scum. A very interesting story that I taped yesterday is of car batteries shorting out as they drowned and lights and emergency beepers going off under water -- described as a "ghost parking lot"

038 Potty. This is the composting toilet I spent 3 days constructing, originally designed by Starhawk and redesigned by everyone who passed through w/ any sense of how these things are supposed to function. Lulu is demonstrating the technique for use, more or less. . .

041 signs. Everywhere you go, there is (are?) a plethora of signs like these, announcing to the world that businesses are open.

050 video. In the Algiers neighborhood, there is much less damage than in some lower-lying districts. The hurricane, it seems, unleashes smaller tornados that reach down and take one building, leaving others around it intact. I tried to capture that in this small video. I wasn't sure if the demolished building was pre- or post- Katrina, but the day this was snapped, there were city crews out, and one of their workers informed me that indeed this one was taken by a tornado, and was one of 10 structures in the Algiers neighborhood to be thus afflicted. He also told me that the reason they are not allowing people to salvage the good wood left, is that they have to verify that the gas and electric are turned off, so they will not further endanger people attempting to salvage the wood.

Now that I've figured out this process, I will try to send more, unless I hear from you that they are not travelling well.