Columbus Mission to Mandeville, Katrina Relief

Remember also that these are taken after 4 weeks of recovery effort.

Here are some pics taken in the area highlighted on the map above them:

This is a pile of donated clothes
Trash piles contain anything you may find in a home or business





























The water and wave action stripped the siding, drywall, and contents away and left only the 2x4s and other wall supports




Residents in Slidell have been in and able to clean up for several weeks








The debris here is the awning from the Shell station








The Baptist Church has piles of donated clothes under tents to keep them out of the weather












This view through the windshield gives a better idea of the extent of the piles and wasted "stuff"







The next set of pictures is moving out into what appears to have been an affluent neighborhood on the lake.




Houses on the swamps around the lake were built on stilts and many of them are now gone, or jumbled up with boats.




























































I took the next set of pictures in St.Bernard Parish on the way to Chalmette to deliver crutches and walkers to the make shift medical clinic.


















This sign and crucifix are at the checkpoint for entry into St. Bernard Parish















The temporary medical clinic that had been run by some docs from the local hospital was replaced by the FEMA DMAT (MASH unit) in the endzone of the high school football stadium. They were moving the supplies they had to a new location where they were needed.


Across the street from the DMAT was a good example of things being out of place in the flooded areas.







If you didn't see this in the middle of the boulevard on E Judge Perez Drive, you'd think it was a...








The local Chase bank branch. Between here and the boat was a house that had floated into the road and been chopped away to allow traffic flow.







The mud is everywhere.









Just outside of St. Bernard Parish, there were boats where there should be cars and vice versa.




















This boat "sank" in what appears to be a natural gas relay station.










There were three car lots on this stretch of I-10 into New Orleans that had been flooded. Each had better than a thousand cars at a glance.