NOLA Photos: '1000% times worse than... on TV'

(The title's quote was taken from out grrl's outstanding diary of 11/16, "Notes from NOLA". I was inspired by blksista's diary from today, 11/22, "The Cajun Republic of Color?". Many good comments on the state of affairs in NOLA are in those diaries there, and therefore, it might be useful to devote commentary here primarily to linked photo contents. Thanks.)

I admit I haven't looked too hard, but at least on Flickr and PBase, I found some photos that show an idea of the devastation Hurricane Katrina created in New Orleans and vicinity.

Feel free to post any links to additional public photos, particularly corresponding "before" shots, in comments below. * Photo links I preface with an asterisk are potentially more interesting.

"millenniumhand" has posted a set here.

Also, "vespa sara" has recently posted photos (though not yet in a set) of NOLA:
* Start here, at the "beginning", or at the "first" page.

(Their pageviews are about to go through the roof!)

From searching for "New Orleans" at PBase.com:

by "Mark Schroy":
photos mostly in the same area as the first Flickr set above

by "Patrick D. Taylor":
* PDT photos

by "spring71":
* spring71 photos

by "Celeste D.":
* CD photos 1, with sub-galleries
CD photos 2
* CD photos 3

by "Gayle O.":
GO photos

by "Joshua Meyer":
JM photos

by "Coleen Perilloux Landry" (many before/after shots):
CPL 1
CPL 2
CPL 3
CPL 4
* CPL 5

by "healthiest":
* photos "From a Law Enforcement Perspective"

by "Curtis Bosarge, Jr":
* CB photos

by "Paul Dovie Jr":
PD photos

by "Phil Orgeron":
PO photos 1
PO photos 2
* PO photos 3: Personal house tour, St. Bernard Parish

by "Angie n Ronny / Chambers n Nex":
AnR photos

by "enrico tobias":
ET photos

•  I looked at some of these pictures earlier today

  the extent of the devastation is breathtaking.

  by lapin on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 02:05:56 PM PDT

•  Sorry but

  I tried the top 4 of your links and failed to find one photo thqt was as disturbing as what I saw on 60 Min the other night. To the contrary.

  So now I move on...

  by TocqueDeville on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 02:07:03 PM PDT

  •  Not sure what was in 60 Minutes, but dig deeper

    Perhaps I should tag the more "interesting" sets with an asterisk....

    At any rate, I'm not trying to change any minds or outdo anyone else's coverage.

    by Ace Pumpkin on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 02:15:09 PM PDT

  •  Wait, I get it! TV vs. photos... My bad n/t

    by Ace Pumpkin on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 02:49:26 PM PDT

•  Who the Hell is in charge in DC?

  I thought Karl Rove was supposed to be the Katrina Czar? Where the hell is he? What the hell has he freaking done? Is ANYONE doing something or are they just going to continue blaming the victims? (corrupt LA politicians, et al.)

  Crimes against humanity, really.

  by jillian on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 02:18:32 PM PDT

  •  It depends on what "in charge" means

    In this post-truth, post-fact, post-irony, post-hypocrisy Bush/Reagan era,  I assume what Rove was in charge of was spin.

    Sorta like how Brownie did his job;
    

    • Less: Saving people from drowning.
      
    • More: FEMA prohibiting photos of corpses.

    by daulton on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 02:38:47 PM PDT

  •  Donald Powell

    FDIC chief to head hurricane repair

    by Halcyon on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 03:15:10 PM PDT

•  The Only Pic You Need To See

  http://home.comcast.net/...

  by NewDirection on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 02:57:06 PM PDT

  •  Yikes...

    ..is all I have to say about that!  One of the 6,000 "missing" no doubt...

    by Progressive Bluenoser on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 03:29:55 PM PDT

•  9th ward - October 27, 2005

  Here

  by Halcyon on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 03:11:39 PM PDT

•  Fantastc referencing diary, Thanks Ace!

  I'll be linking your diary here:  The Missing and the Dead Part IV   where I've been attempting to keep track of Diaries/Links regarding seeing to the missing, the dead, and related hurricane issues.

  I'll also link any photo references I haven't already linked there, which looks like quite a few.

  Also, here's another image page which shouldn't be missed (be patient with the connection time, it's a busy page) Photos by Alan Chin/Gamma, courtesy of Septic Tank.

  by DianeL on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 04:01:58 PM PDT

•  Good thing it wasn't Republicans

  Else the Bushies might have felt obliged to do the right thing.

  Let no one ever say...

  ...that suffering Bush to be president in 2000 did not matter much.

  It may have cost New Orleans its existence and quite a few of its not-Republican-enough citizens their lives.

  by cskendrick on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 04:04:26 PM PDT

•  Cant stand it...

  I'm from St. Bernard...

  It was a toxic wasteland before all this...

  now it's a totally uninhabitable toxic wasteland...

  Looking at that personal house tour is like looking at my own house.  

  I believe people are still in a state of shock over this.  But little by little the true and lasting effects of this devistation will emerge.  

  I once took a course in college in Chinese history.  It seems in the ancient dynasties the Chinese population would put up with all sorts of tyranical abuse by the ruling family... as long as the rivers and irrigation systems were kept in good repair.  But if complacent ruler neglected river maintenance and people got flooded, there would be a popular uprising in which the rulers would be thrown out and a new dynasty would come in to power.

  of course that was China...
  

  by sonofapes on Wed Nov 23, 2005 at 02:38:22 AM PDT