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 BecomeTheChange
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Gender: Male
 |  |  | The Lost Homes of Katrina
< on 4/13/2011 4:11 AM >
|  | | | There are thousands of these reminders all through these neighborhoods. Frozen in time. Solemnly waiting for their inhabitants to return. I could spend days photographing these. It's hard to not get overwhelmed.
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K8 Vonwolfie
  
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Location: ct
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people die right there ---->
| | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 1 on 4/13/2011 4:35 AM >
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nice set. i would totally agree with not becoming overwhelmed at a site like this
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K8 Vonwolfie
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people die right there ---->
| | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 2 on 4/13/2011 4:37 AM >
| | | | the one where inside the house it says do not demolish really got me just now. sad doesn't even begin to cover it
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NiiCKx3
Location: W.V.
| | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 3 on 4/13/2011 3:03 PM >
| | | | I don't know much about it, but what keeps people from returning to the homes now? Are they deemed unsafe?
Less breaking, more entering -- *tells cop we're taking pictures* "OF WUUUUT?!" |
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Buffalonian
    
Location: Buffalo, NY
| | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 5 on 4/13/2011 5:47 PM >
| | | | Love.
I cream, you cream, we all cream for .. white spooge. |
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Harvestman
Location: Somewhere in SORTA/TANK Territory!
Gender: Male
Everything about me has a poker face.
| | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 6 on 4/13/2011 6:11 PM >
| | | | Posted by robtastic
fantastic pictures. very moody.
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Very moody and very moldy. I assume that water and mold damage is the main reason why people haven't come back into them.
Oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing.
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willskith
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 7 on 4/13/2011 7:19 PM >
| | | | Incredible set. My friend was squatting in nola after katrina and walked through the 9th Ward to take some pictures and see the damage. She said there were still some people who were very territorial, some were armed and ready to defend their destroyed homes. The little details like that spray paint reflect this and make the set that much more personal.
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BecomeTheChange
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 8 on 4/13/2011 8:15 PM >
| | | | Posted by willskith
Incredible set. My friend was squatting in nola after katrina and walked through the 9th Ward to take some pictures and see the damage. She said there were still some people who were very territorial, some were armed and ready to defend their destroyed homes. The little details like that spray paint reflect this and make the set that much more personal.
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I can definitely imagine what it would have been like at that time. It was the wild west. Extremely poor people defending what little they had. Surprisingly there is still some of that going on. It's unreal.
As far as people not returning, it's a number of reasons. Most people lost everything and literally can't afford to return. Thousands displaced to other cities where they now have better jobs and have set up a new life for themselves. This place just holds horrible memories and nothing to really return to.
What really creates an eerie feeling is theses neighborhoods are full of abandoned houses and then literally next door, somebody is living.
Thanks for viewing. I will probably have more in the future.
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macgruder
Location: Northern NJ
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 9 on 4/14/2011 3:17 PM >
| | | | number 2 rocks my socks.
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K8 Vonwolfie
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Location: ct
Gender: Female
people die right there ---->
| | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 10 on 4/14/2011 7:59 PM >
| | | | Posted by NiiCKx3
I don't know much about it, but what keeps people from returning to the homes now? Are they deemed unsafe?
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the mold, water damage is mainly the reason. plus the fact that they have been siting there for how long now being an used and open to all the elements. once black mold sets in a place it better off being torn down or gutted completely to the bones of the structure. but im assuming in this case because of the totally devastation that occurred and how long the water stayed around even the bones of the houses are unusable and unfix-able
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big dave
  
Location: SoCal
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 11 on 4/14/2011 8:08 PM >
| | | | Its not the mold and water damage. Its the fact that people in these neighborhood that are worthy of exploring, never had any money to begin with. Once they lost what they had, they moved on. Theres no coming back to their old life and rebuilding when they had nothing to start with.
I was in the lower 9th 1 year after Katrina.
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K8 Vonwolfie
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people die right there ---->
| | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 12 on 4/21/2011 12:22 AM >
| | | | Posted by big dave
Its not the mold and water damage. Its the fact that people in these neighborhood that are worthy of exploring, never had any money to begin with. Once they lost what they had, they moved on. Theres no coming back to their old life and rebuilding when they had nothing to start with.
I was in the lower 9th 1 year after Katrina.
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i did not know this, but this is god information to know. i knew they had been poor, but didnt realize this was the major contributing factor as to why they never came back. thank you for that
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BecomeTheChange
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 13 on 4/21/2011 2:41 AM >
| | | | Posted by k8 intense
i did not know this, but this is god information to know. i knew they had been poor, but didnt realize this was the major contributing factor as to why they never came back. thank you for that
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Did you even see my response?
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K8 Vonwolfie
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Location: ct
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people die right there ---->
| | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 14 on 4/21/2011 9:22 PM >
| | | | Posted by BecomeTheChange
As far as people not returning, it's a number of reasons. Most people lost everything and literally can't afford to return. Thousands displaced to other cities where they now have better jobs and have set up a new life for themselves. This place just holds horrible memories and nothing to really return to.
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this? yes i did. i was just making a general thank you to everyone, u and dave, for letting me know it wasnt just due to water damage and mold but literally everything they had they lost and now they have moved on. I was unaware of this and it's good to know these things. I'd like to try and not be ignorant to situations like this so the more I learn the better I can become at not making ignorant comments like water damage and mold are why they didn't come back ya know?
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CDSbigsby
Location: Lancaster, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 15 on 4/22/2011 9:55 PM >
| | | | I've been to New Orleans twice since Katrina, and it left me speechless to see the damage that's still left...The first time I went was in late 2009/early 2010, I think, and I went again just a month or two ago. Naturally, loving urbex, the first thought is that it looks like a UE playground, then you remember what happened to cause all the abandonment, all the people who died here, and it's an overwhelming feeling. I haven't gotten to do any UE while I was there either time.
edit: Oh, and, great pictures. Thanks for sharing.
[last edit 4/22/2011 9:56 PM by CDSbigsby - edited 1 times]
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ahhntzville
Location: Boston
| | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 16 on 4/23/2011 12:06 AM >
| | | | Fascinating. You should've just posted the whole set; there are only 30 photos. We see threads of 30+ shitty ass photos all the time; this would have been one rare instance where the quantity was actually justified.
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BecomeTheChange
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 17 on 4/23/2011 2:02 PM >
| | | | I noticed they were working on a pumping station and they had dammed the water. This part is usually under about 8-10 feet of water. I think this says it all...
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K8 Vonwolfie
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Location: ct
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people die right there ---->
| | | Re: The Lost Homes of Katrina
<Reply # 18 on 4/24/2011 2:13 AM >
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1 is really intense. the black and white just evokes really strong emotions
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