Devastation Tour
Posted By Sarah and Claire, Mar 18, 2007
Stan, our tour guide, said that if you can describe the Grand Canyon you haven’t been there. That is the perfect expression of what New Orleans is now. The total devastation of the city two year after the storm and flood is indescribable. We saw $6 million mansions being gutted and tiny shot gun homes being gutted. Entire blocks where single family homes once stood in the lower 9th Ward are now grassy fields. Every once in a while you see cement stairs leading up to thin air. The streets were eerily quiet, almost no children were around, no pets, no police cars. TVs, couches, dining room tables could be seen strewn around the inside of many homes, covered in dirt and mold, untouched in almost two years. I felt like I might as well have been on the moon it was so removed from our reality in Davis.
