Once upon a time, Storyteller had some structure to it. Sundays posts used to be for experimental pictures. Monday, and a day or two afterward, used to be for second line parades and so on. And, on, and, on.
I moved away from that.
Because. I’m supposed to be an artist. I’m supposed to be random and spontaneous. Mostly, I just got lazy. Mostly, I had a hard time filling each day. And… now that I’m pretty much done chasing every Sunday’s second line parades, I don’t have the new work to fill the days in any sort of order. So, I post whatever is new.
But, I think I need a little structure. Not to be entirely predictable, but to give my own brain a little sense of order on these pages.
So.
Let’s start with Sunday experiments. I used to do that every Sunday. I’d just tinker with pictures — as I still do today — whenever the mood struck me. But, I’d only publish them on Sunday. So, that’s what you are seeing today. Experiments.
The picture. One of those 9th Ward buildings that never returned for the storm with a little help from OnOne and my own mind. It’s probably a good idea to post this today as an homage to those folks who are recovering from their own “storm” in Haiti, Cuba, on Caribbean Islands and along the United States Mid-Atlantic Coast.
This house has been abandoned for 11 years. Don’t let this happen to you if you are shaking your heads and looking at nature’s fresh destruction. The best way to recover and heal from this destruction is to repair it immediately. As in, now. For a while it is your life. Live it. It will get better. I promise.
No insurance maybe?
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Sort of. Maybe. Likely insured for replacement cost… In 1920. Or, many homes were just passed down in the family with no clear line of succession making the current owner not qualified for FEMA or Road Home funds. Or, the owner died. Even though the Katrina Cross says no bodies were found in the building, a decade is a long time when you are 85.
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Yes, I think for most people there is just no chance of rebuilding without insurance, for lower incomes, it’s just not something they can do.
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There was FEMA and LRH grants, plus SBA low interest loans for those of us who could prove the providence of our property.
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Thanks for sharing this…☺️
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Whenever it’s possible I think rebuilding is the best thing to do. Maybe not in this case.
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There were some 60,000 structure like this in New Orleans as of a few years ago. Unfortunately too much of the internal of these structures are way too damaged from water. Many just fell in upon on themselves. Others were finally just torn down. There is about 30,000 of them still around.
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I drove through the 9th ward while visiting NOLA back in 2013. I was surprised by all of the houses that were left dormant after Katrina–many of them looked just like the one you posted here.
For me it was very sobering.
Thanks for sharing.
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In the Lower 9th the neighborhood has mostly returned to nature. No matter how many people try I doubt it will ever come back. As for the rest, who knows. It’s been 11 years… Thank you for stopping by.
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🙂 You’re welcome
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