Ten Years Time

Lower Ninth Ward

This picture is famous in New Orleans. It was made in The Lower Ninth Ward at the new levee on the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I guess we were celebrating that we'd made it that far. But, still, today twenty years on the Lower Ninth Ward is mostly a swamp. There are a few houses here and there and some falling apart Make It Right houses that world-class architects designed, although they never understood our climate. The land returned to nature where it belongs. 

 

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