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September to December 2005

The Storm

Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29, 2005. These are from the four months after, including the weeks spent evacuated in Mississippi.

11 photographs

One person walking down a road between flattened houses and bare trees — Devastation Walk on Girard St2005 · Damage and Repair

A pile of splintered lumber from a destroyed house with a kitchen sink on top — Everything and the Kitchen Sink2005 · Damage and Repair

A storm-damaged two-story Victorian house, black and white — House Needs Repair2005 · Damage and Repair

Our Lady of Prompt Succor church after the storm, its blue glass steeple damaged and caution tape across the front — Hasten to Help Us2005 · Sacred Spaces

The New Canal lighthouse beside wrecked buildings at West End — New Basin Canal Disaster2005 · Damage and Repair

Cafe Du Monde full of people behind a banner reading Beignets Are Back — Beignets Are Back2005 · Streets and Signs

Parishioners standing and talking in a church with scaffolding along one wall — Telling Storm Stories After First Mass Back in Church2005 · Sacred Spaces

Green St. Charles streetcar 965 with a Christmas garland running on Canal Street — Streetcar 965 Christmas 2005 on Canal2005 · Streetcars

St. Louis Cathedral seen through red, yellow, blue and green window panes — Stained Glass Cathedral2005 · Sacred Spaces

The standing columns of Windsor Ruins in Mississippi, black and white — Windsor Ruins2005 · Damage and Repair

Streetcar tracks under oaks with a broken signal lying on the neutral ground — Storm Floods Barn2005 · Streetcars

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