NOLA trips

[HurryKane]

First trip: Read about it here http://www.2daves.org/sd (Webbeotch = Hurrykane)

Second trip: This weekend, to Southport Hall in Uptown to see an 80's hair band cover band. It was great, lots of people, and we took the newly opened side of the I-10 twinspan to get there.

It was a very creepy drive though; while downtown NOLA is all aglow, the rest is completely dark. There are no street lights working on the interstate anywhere. Everything from the time you get off the twinspan to the downtown exits--and this includes huge neighborhoods and retail areas--is just blacked out.

[Ixolib]

First trip: Read about it here http://www.2daves.org/sd (Webbeotch = Hurrykane)

Second trip: This weekend, to Southport Hall in Uptown to see an 80's hair band cover band. It was great, lots of people, and we took the newly opened side of the I-10 twinspan to get there.

It was a very creepy drive though; while downtown NOLA is all aglow, the rest is completely dark. There are no street lights working on the interstate anywhere. Everything from the time you get off the twinspan to the downtown exits--and this includes huge neighborhoods and retail areas--is just blacked out.

And each of those huge neighborhoods and retail areas are also abandoned and there are virtually NO PEOPLE in sight on either side of I-10 as far as the eye can see. Hurrykane - did you see the receding water marks on the highway divider? And ALL those cars that turned virtually white from all the gunk out of Lake P. And how 'bout that Ford dealership on the south side of I-10 where there are literally acres and acres of brand new cars - had to be hundreds at least - that were flooded over their roofs, still sitting there as if waiting on a buyer. A very surreal thing to look at considering that just a few weeks ago it was a thriving, living area. Now it's dead, desolate, and decaying. I can't imagine how that area will EVER recover. Tens of thousands of homes, I suppose, are toast - and that's just in N.O. East!! When all this settles in in about a year or so, the story is going to get even more interesting, I think...

[HurryKane]

First trip: Read about it here http://www.2daves.org/sd (Webbeotch = Hurrykane)

Second trip: This weekend, to Southport Hall in Uptown to see an 80's hair band cover band. It was great, lots of people, and we took the newly opened side of the I-10 twinspan to get there.

It was a very creepy drive though; while downtown NOLA is all aglow, the rest is completely dark. There are no street lights working on the interstate anywhere. Everything from the time you get off the twinspan to the downtown exits--and this includes huge neighborhoods and retail areas--is just blacked out.

And each of those huge neighborhoods and retail areas are also abandoned and there are virtually NO PEOPLE in sight on either side of I-10 as far as the eye can see. Hurrykane - did you see the receding water marks on the highway divider? And ALL those cars that turned virtually white from all the gunk out of Lake P. And how 'bout that Ford dealership on the south side of I-10 where there are literally acres and acres of brand new cars - had to be hundreds at least - that were flooded over their roofs, still sitting there as if waiting on a buyer. A very surreal thing to look at considering that just a few weeks ago it was a thriving, living area. Now it's dead, desolate, and decaying. I can't imagine how that area will EVER recover. Tens of thousands of homes, I suppose, are toast - and that's just in N.O. East!! When all this settles in in about a year or so, the story is going to get even more interesting, I think...

I didn't see the water marks on the divider on that night trip But yes, during a prior visit I had seen the white cars at that big dealership. We wondered what will become of them--and in the past several days I-10 eastbound in Mississippi is full of tow trucks carrying 2-3 of those cars to points east.

It's the standstill appearance in NOLA East that gets to me; it's like all the people and signs of life were just instantly erased from the area. But downtown/Uptown looks like it's doing pretty well.

[Ixolib]

Yes, I agree - it's like the plague hit and everyone just vanished... And yes, I've seen bunches of those tow trucks heading eastbound with two or three flooded cars on board. I too wonder where they're going and what will become of them. Haven't been downtown yet - looking forward to that.

[HurryKane]

Heck yeah, I'm getting a burger at Port of Call this weekend. MMM!