Photo Tour Through Flooded New Orleans Areas

[Sean in New Orleans]

About 75% of the thread is through flooded areas. We start Uptown at my house, head further Uptown on St. Charles Ave., cut over to Carrollton Ave. and head into flooded areas. We drive through City Park, hit Lakeview, the Lakefront, swing back through Gentilly, the French Quarter, Downtown, and finally back to Uptown. Enjoy.




Christmas decorations are just beginning to show up in my Uptown neighborhood...



St. Charles Ave. Uptown...







Here is a stop light still down at State St. and St. Charles Ave. The replacement of over 600 stoplight intersections is almost complete...



Tulane University..



Audubon Park..



Further Uptown on Carrollton, heading towards flooded areas...





Area that had around 5 feet of floodwaters...



One of many, many new stoplights...



The next 8 photos are in areas that had 8 to 12 feet of floodwaters in the City of New Orleans:





Christmas Decorated Streetcar...



Mid-City Apartment Building...









Water was over 12 feet at this location for several blocks in Mid-City...I stopped at this little convenience store to pick up a couple of beers...



Getting deep into Mid-City where water was very deep everywhere...



Still living in a FEMA trailor as the house wraps up renovations...





Bayou St. John around the Faubourg..



Getting Into City Park:







A damaged City Park Oak tree lives on....



Flooded home is now completed it's renovations...



But, this one looks like it will be another 2 to 3 months before it is ready to be inhabited...the ground work is just complete. (notice the home next door that still has floodwater lines)



Just starting to come back to life in Lakeview!



New Orleans Lakefront...





A gutted home...



The famous flooded Lakeview that we all heard about on the news for days...











New Condos on the way around Lakeview...



Hard to see...new mega-size flood gates at the 17 St. Canal:



Blurry...New Orleans' Yachts..



Wanna Party?



Lakefront...



Downtown New Orleans in the distance...



Lakefront neighborhood...







University of New Orleans...



Bulldozed...





Canal Blvd Trying to come back from over 11 feet of water everywhere we see for almost 3 weeks!



One of over 50 brand new McDonald's sprouting up in flooded areas!



Busy Lowes!!



Getting towards Downtown...sorry blurry. I was driving...





Just a few of the French Quarter...we've all seen the Quarter before on this site...







Mime:



Beignets!



Tourists:









Edge of the Quarter getting towards Downtown..



Hard to see...But, it is Harrah's Casino:



Trump Tower Sign (68 storeys on the way):



Poydras St. Downtown New Orleans:









Arena Football Comes Back in Spring..New Orleans VooDoo:



Offices:



45 Storey's of condos coming here:



Downtown New Orleans:





New Tower Coming on this corner..blurry again:



Federal Court of Appeals:


Downtown Grit:



Radio Station...DIVA 92.3 advertisement:



Tracage Condos To Be Here...Hard to see the sign:



Demolition for Tracage has begun:



Urban Apartment complex:



Inner City home under construction:



Inner City residential development:



Getting back Uptown..residential:





My neighborhood Starbucks!



Some friends (young married couple), of mine have been renovating and living in this home for a couple of years:



Back in my stomping grounds:









Felix's Uptown: Where I Eat Raw Oysters!!!



Prytania St.



Single Screen Movie Theater in My neighborhood....Alive and Well!



Just a neighborhood shot:



The end...I think I didn't use several photos, so it's just under 100. Enjoy!

[CajunMama]

I feel like i've just been on a personalized tour! Thanks sean!

[stormcrow]

Thanks ofr the tour, finally looks like the city is coming back to life. Would be intersting to see the 9th ward (was last there on 3-30), bet its still a mess.

[Sean in New Orleans]

Thanks ofr the tour, finally looks like the city is coming back to life. Would be intersting to see the 9th ward (was last there on 3-30), bet its still a mess.

A majority of the lower 9th, likely, won't be rebuilt, from what I hear, so I'm not going to drive over their and take pics until they decide on what they are going to do and whether or not they are going to build the park and golf course, which is what has been floating around.

[Ixolib]

Wow - great tour, Sean.... Thanks!! I think I recognized about 98 of those pics!!

BTW, where do you live in relation to Valence & Freret? My brother has lived on that corner for many, many years. Like most of y'all in Uptown, he had no flooding, but was without power for a looooooong time!!

[sunny]

Sean, that was really a great photo tour!!

[dizzyfish]

Thank you for the wonderful pics. I feel like I've been there.

[Jim Cantore]

Great Stuff, thanks for posting. Looks like things are slowly returning to normal.

[wxmann_91]

Great pics, thanks for posting them. Good to see many of the areas recovering and rebuilding.

[MiamiensisWx]

It is really outstanding to see the area recover. Thanks for sharing, Sean!

[jasons2k]

Thanks for the photos. Wow - it looks a lot better and busier than when I was there back in August.

[Ptarmigan]

Nice photos of New Orleans. Sure is recovering and coming back to life. Don't know about the Lower 9th Ward. St. Bernard Parish is right next to the Lower 9th Ward and they are recovering as well, even though that whole area got flooded.

[JonathanBelles]

wow great pics, looking good in NOLA

[Lindaloo]

Where did all those people go that were in the 9th ward? Did they move uptown Sean?

[vbhoutex]

Where did all those people go that were in the 9th ward? Did they move uptown Sean?

A lot of them are still living in Houston. It seems, at least from what we hear from time to time that many want to go back, but with nothing to go back to their choices are a little limited.

It is great to see NO slowly but surely coming back to life.

[Sean in New Orleans]

Where did all those people go that were in the 9th ward? Did they move uptown Sean?

Some are back, Lindaloo. I've assisted quite a few of them at the bank where I work. They are wonderful people who are simply trying to put their lives back together. Even though the Lower Ninth Ward only represents about 1/90 of New Orleans, I still have an attachment to that area of the City. Parts of the lower Ninth (by the river), are being re-inhabited, but, many have located in other parts of the Ninth and Seventh wards, as well as the Westbank. Many are still in Houston, but, most of those people are not frow the Lower Ninth Ward. The Lower Ninth Ward consisted of mostly homeowners. Most of those remaining in Texas are from public housing projects that the Federal Governement is not rebuilding...they are demolishing them and rebuilding mixed income neighborhoods in their place. Hence, the reasoning that we are seeing these individuals "stuck," in Texas for another four or five years. I honestly don't think that they will be rebuilding the Northern side of the Lower Ninth. I think that the government is going to, inevitably, buy them out and assist them in purchasing homes in other areas of Metro New Orleans. It is very sad. My parents lived in Chalmette, which is close to the Lower Ninth Ward and these areas intermingled alot in Chalmette, as most of the Lower Ninth Ward did their shopping in St. Bernard Parish.

[Lindaloo]

At least they are somewhere.

[Sean in New Orleans]

At least they are somewhere.

Exactly...the more that can come back the better. New Orleans is gumbo...the more you put into the pot, the better it tastes....