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9 June 2006 Coleen Perilloux Landry

I Cry For These Boats-June 8, 2006

New Orleans Yatch Harbor

And, for the owners who have not come to claim them. Nine and one-half months after Hurricane Katrina tossed them ashore at the yatch harbor, hundreds of boats still lay askew in the street and park area. There are some very expensive, nice sail boats that probably could be salvaged but the owners have lost their homes, their jobs and are living out of the state. I would imagine that soon a moratorium will be declared on recovery and these will be scrapped. But, only after the 100,000 cars are hauled away off the streets, supposedly next week.


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Gary Winters10-Oct-2006 03:10
It's all so sad I never can find the right words.
Dan Chusid01-Jul-2006 17:03
Pretty amazing that this is still the scene after all this time.
Eeerie reminder and one that should have been remedied
a lot sooner.
Lee Rudd24-Jun-2006 16:09
I suppose it is a lesson that the forces of nature can reduce a modern society and make them focus on priorities for a long time to come.
northstar3712-Jun-2006 07:10
incredible!
Jackdad11-Jun-2006 19:39
beautiful image and light but I am amazed at how much there still seems to do!
Elaine (etfitz)11-Jun-2006 15:14
It is taking so long to return to "normal". Activites that used to bring joy and relaxation have taken a distant backseat to all of the "have to's" in the recovery process. Their just isn't enough time in the day.
Neal Nye11-Jun-2006 11:51
Most of us have no idea what this is like. Seems to me that is what governments are supposed to be for - to tackle jobs too big for any individual or smaller group. Of course, ours is too busy chasing an impossible fantasy on the other side of the world.
Karen Stuebing11-Jun-2006 10:13
Or maybe restored and resold? Tragic photo. I know when we have floods, there are always nice boats transported into the woods somewhere to rot.
Webman0611-Jun-2006 09:53
It's such a shame to see a highly developped country such as yours in such an abandoned state of having cars and boats lying in the streets so many month after Katrina...
Best luck for the reconstruction.
Cheers
Katherine 11-Jun-2006 07:51
And those of you who don't live here have no idea what it's like to drive through once vibrant neighborhoods in this city and just find thousands of empty homes, empty streets, not a sole around. . . block after block after block of empty houses, abandoned cars, boats still on the streets. It is indescribable.
Guest 11-Jun-2006 04:39
Breaks my heart to see disaster like this. The sad situation is that the hurricane season is starting up again. Outstanding capture. GMV
laine8211-Jun-2006 03:25
The picture does not get any prettier.
JW11-Jun-2006 02:52
Such a sad story. The boats seem like a metaphor for modern life when nature takes the upper hand.
Hubert Steed11-Jun-2006 02:33
Boat cemetery at sunset... stunning composition... gmv
Karen Leaf11-Jun-2006 02:00
With that beautiful sunset these boats should be floating at the quay.
I'm sharing my hanky with you. (just don't blow your nose on it, ok :)
Cindy Flood11-Jun-2006 01:45
This is unbelievable.
royalld11-Jun-2006 01:27
That is hard to witness.
Some of these boats would make fine homes, after a little fiberglass work.
Robin Reid11-Jun-2006 01:18
The tragedy continues.
Guest 11-Jun-2006 00:26
I went by there today. An older man was climbing around on the very unsafe remnans of what used to be a dock looking for his boat.