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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures (part 2) William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-12-2005 06:59 AM                        These pictures were all taken in the week starting 6 days after the hurricane. The additional post-hurricane mandatory evacuation had been ordered, sending almost everyone out of New Orleans. It was pretty empty, except for infrastructure workers, business owners who could get back (which were very, very few, about 1 business every 3 blocks was unboarded & under repair), media, police, & military. Admission into the city was not allowed except for those folks. Those folks were spread out, but there was a sort of clot near the foot of Canal Street, where a few (about 4) hotels had been made operational to house the workers & media. Some, very few folks stayed in the French quarter. There was 1 bar open (the proprietors had stayed & were 'grandfathered', & 1 corner-type store open for the same reason. A vehicle went by on Canal Street about every 40 minutes. Very empty. But if you keep walking down to the foot of Canal Street: An oasis! A gathering of a few people! What can this wonder be? THE BUDWEISER HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF TENT! IS THIS A MIRAGE? No, but they've got no damn beer! Budweiser provided the tent & funding, & someone is coordinating the dispersion of donated relief food items for the remaining residents & folks working in New Orleans. Lots of corporate donations from bottled water co's, cereal companies, bleach, cereal, Welch's juice, etc. in bulk packaged for takeaway by residents, & laid out on tables buffet-style for the folks working down there to get meals (since no restaurants are open). Not just bulk commodity food from corporate donors: The banner in the back behind the barbecue grills is from the Elberta, AL Little League, who'd bought a lot of candy bars to sell for their annual fundraiser, then donated them all to Katrina Relief. Elberta is very near the coast, & is still recovering from several storms: Ivan, Dennis, & a very bad tropical storm (Cindy?) Serving it up every few shifts are four or so folks volunteering their time from Pensacola, FL. Pensacola is STILL very much staggering & trying to get it together from the last three hurricanes, going back to last year's Ivan. Yum, home cooking - sausages, fried eggs, steaks (when some are donated), juice (come on give it up, Budweiser, nobody's looking!), corn, beans, etc. You can't believe how incredibly good it is at the end of the day - especially after a shower in the portable showers built in trailers brought in & parked nearby. The word on the municipal water was TFN don't drink it, don't wash in it, & we were a little hesitant to poop in it in case something might FLY OUT & attack. Yay portable showers & Budweiser Katrina Relief Tent! Walking down Decatur, there are two huge adjacent lots which are usually empty, but are now populated with military in tents, etc. Many of the out-of-towners are basing in the area of the French Quarter next to the river, since there's space (usually open green spaces like parks, etc.) - Firemen from Decatur, IL, etc. Walking back up through the French Quarter to get back before curfew: 1. I have never seen the French Quarter so empty. 2. I have never seen the French Quarter so clean. [ 10-13-2005, 02:15 AM: Message edited by: William Hooper ]  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-12-2005 07:24 AM                        quote: William Hooper Budweiser provided the tent & funding, & someone is coordinating the dispersion of donated relief food items for the remaining residents & folks working in New Orleans. Lots of corporate donations from bottled water co's, cereal companies, bleach, cereal, Welch's juice, etc. in bulk packaged for takeaway by residents, & laid out on tables buffet-style for the folks working down there to get meals (since no restaurants are open). Not just bulk commodity food from corporate donors... To those companies donating goods and services to relief efforts:  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-13-2005 02:12 AM                        Back up to the exclusive & palatial dwelling to beat curfew & spend the night. Beds, sofas, showers (that you can't bathe in), all nice, but without AC, the roof looks much better. Haul out a folding table & some sofa cushions, make a note to have someone bring in some insect repellent (even thought the city's been spraying daily). When the wind blows from uptown, the air is pretty because all the severely damaged trees bloom after a hurricane as a sort of last ditch reproductive effort since they're dying. When the wind blows from the other way, the stench is worse than a septic tank from the nearby restaurant from which the guy came yesterday & cleaned out its food rotting without power for a week. They bagged it up, set it by the road, solid-black, 8' dia. hordes of aggressive flies lit on the bags, the next day when a cleanup crew came, the crew grabbed the outlet hose from a pump evacuating from a nearby basement to wash off the claw from their truck - with The Poo-Poo Water! The discarded rotting food was that nasty. The mosquitoes are actually working out, because it's neccessary to get up every 2 hours anyway & feed the thing in the basement. The worry that walking behind the parapet outside on the roof at night may make somebody think it's a rooftop sniper & open up is unrealized, as is the expectation that any moment you'll bump into Hamlet's dad. Monday the wire-twisting guys say they're going to power the next upper section of Canal Street! Power comes up for 30 minutes, then it's off. Something is pulling an incredible amount of amps somewhere, plus there seems to be an underground cable break somewhere. They decide that even though the grid will be powered on Canal Street up to the interstate, buildings that look like their service entrance may be compromised won't be powered. Guy walks around with marker paint & sprays OPEN on the sidewalk next to the grid of a transformer vault, the next day a guy comes up with a diesel pump on a trailer, & pulls the grid. There's only an inch of water at the bottom! WHAT TH! THAT doesn't make any sense, this was flooded 4 feet above the sidewalk! Quack, quack, quack on the cell phones, the guy walks across the street & marks another xformer vault there, THE SAME THING HAPPENS THE NEXT DAY! STRANGE THINGS happen during the hurricanes! Wednesday the power comes on! The best bit from Batman Returns: "All right, I'm back! Turn on the lights! Crank the AC! Get outta my way!" The power goes no further than the blocks fronting Canal Street, & those buildings only if they're chosen. Past Canal Street in the day, New Orleans spreads on to the horizon; at night, past Canal Street, there's only the timeless darkness that's everywhere at night after a hurricane, in which everything stops, people go in, & there's nothing to do but wait for the sun to return tomorrow. Boopyboopybeebeepboop. "Hello?" "Hey, this is Bill in New Orleans. Do you know what's going on here? Yesterday there were a bunch of contractors & media buzzing around, but it looks like they're all gone today." "Well, yeah, they evacuated New Orleans!" "Yeah I know, but yesterday.." "You got to get out of there, a hurricane's coming & they've evacuated!" "Oh right." "No kidding, another hurricane is coming, they've told everyone to leave, they're saying the levee repairs may not hold if it comes very near." "Ummm...." (Looking at the waterline from the flood, & thinking about moving the vehicle to a nearby derelict busted-up parking garage if some part of it can be found that is still close enough to maybe structurally sound-looking) Tip for tourists: Locals & frequent visitors know that the most exciting views of the city are had from lying on top of a drizzle-slicked tarp being spread on top of a lantern with demolished roof 7 floors up, holding the remains of the roof ridge & trying to keep it from blowing off in a gale while it bucks up beneath you a foot at a time as the gusts get under it, and calling to your companions a floor below, "JUST TIE IT ANYWHERE! I AM ABOUT TO DIE!" Relax by closing your eyes & imagining yourself soaring high over the city on your magical vinyl carpet, like Aladdin! Tarps just a-flapping at the US Custom House on Canal Street. Close enough for government work, I suppose. Let us walk on haughtily. Taking a look around while heading up to check the tarps before it gets darker & dirtier. The Miracle Substance of our age is TAR! It can be applied in a driving rain! Fills splits & holes, for bigger gouges & holes like those made by windborne roofing or steel panels from billboards, find a shingle or piece of tin that's blown onto the roof from somewhere else, then just slop tar around the edges! It is EXCELLENT! And no more messy to work with than changing the ribbon in an old AP teletype. Call your friends & have them scrounge you a bucket of tar today! When they come, have them take a couple of tarps back with them. The hotels that have been powered have all the lights on that will light. Everybody with power shows off by turning on everything that can be seen. The other illumination is all from streetlights. And past the blocks fronting Canal Street, where there is no power still, it might as well be deep space or da river. All of the cars in the foreground parking lot are abandoned & waiting to be towed away - smashed up by hurricance debris & won't start anyway because they were submerged in the flood water where they stood when the levee broke. At the end of our pleasant stay, we pack up all the weird crap we brought just in case of whatever might be needed, pick our way back up the interstate, back off on 90 to Hwy 11 again for a mile or so, whoops, they've put the floodgates across the road because the last storm has sent the lake across the road, backtrack to the interstate, go up to the last exit before it's closed, go the wrong way on the entrance ramp there to pick over to 11 above the flood gates, enjoy the drive on 11 across the bridge to sodden Slidell. Take some pictures of astonishing Slidell, which looks like the basement of hell after the water main has busted, leave the last tarps at a relief center, lose the last roll of film somewhere. Back home, a nice warm shower, throw away the clothes which are now splattered with oil, The Poo-Poo Water, bleach, & paint-like stuff which was the substance declared chemical resistant covering hoses, gloves, etc but which came off like wet paint after coming in contact with The Poo-Poo Water & sliding across your shirt or pants. Let's go back next weekend to Picturesque Olde New Orleans!  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-16-2005 01:27 AM                     Apparently, this is going to be a real movie, sounds hilarious! (though yes it's obviously a fan made poster I'm aware of that). I wonder if they saw the somewhat funny sketch on SNL years ago about snakes on the plane? Lol.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 10-16-2005 01:56 AM                        Took this picture last night at a hotel resort close to my house. Me on the roof top of the resort, jamming with a friend. The view from the roof.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-17-2005 06:08 AM                         |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 10-17-2005 08:34 AM                    Good thing the boat was there.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-17-2005 12:57 PM                        What's going on in the upper corners? William are you using a lens that you are not supposed to be using with that camera?  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 10-17-2005 07:19 PM                        I'm doubting that William took that picture, I've come across it a few times in the past 4 or 5 years. Of course... that alone doesn't mean William didn't take the photo... hmm...  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-17-2005 11:21 PM                     The corners are there to give the photoshoped picture more credibility.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-18-2005 12:01 AM                        No, I didn't take that picture, just found it. I also didn't take the following pictures of a very high-quality fence: they were shot by an insurance adjuster in Chalmette, LA after the flooding went down.  |  IP: Logged Andy Summers Master Film Handler Posts: 397 From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-18-2005 12:08 AM                 What the f=%K how in the hell did that end up like that. What’s next?  |  IP: Logged Bernard Tonks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-18-2005 10:00 AM                      |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-18-2005 11:17 AM                        quote: Andy Summers What the f=%K how in the hell did that end up like that. It was carried there by floodwater and 'ran aground' on the fence. If you look at the fence carefully you'll see discolouration where the high water line was, which is roughly level with the car's front wheels. Not only is that one heavy duty fence for taking the weight of the car, but especially so after its foundations must have been weakened by being under water for a while before the car arrived.  |  IP: Logged Andy Summers Master Film Handler Posts: 397 From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-19-2005 09:16 PM                 Leo’ Your joking floodwater, the water must have been 7 feet deep or so, damn… I could have sworn some joker placed it there with a crane. Climates are most defiantly changing, though I wonder what it was like hear, 4 billion years ago.  |  IP: Logged

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