Photos inside my cousin's home - New Orleans
 

Shutterfly won't let me link the images (other than the main page image) so here's a link to some really devastaing photos from inside my cousin's home.

They are all safe and obviously we're all thankful for that. The mess that's left behind is just overwhelming.

Here is the link to the Shutterfly Album: LINK

Just click the VIEW PICTURES button when the page comes up and it should allow you to scroll through the album.

So sad....hopefully, that's all he lost.

Jeeez, blackthorn, what a mess.... but they've so much to be thankful for...

with all that water -- is the house salvagable? that living room and front door were beautiful...

Good luck to them...

Wow - that's gotta be overwhelming to see. Especially since there's nearly nothing he can do until the flood waters are gone. By then he will have a lot of construction to redo. All porous materials will be waterlogged, bacteria laden, and growing mold and mildue. I hope he has what he needs for his family.

Are they planning to go back, to rebuild? Did they have flood insurance? Where are they staying now?

Wow. I haven't seen any pictures of inside the houses yet. I don't even know what to say. I am moved. I cannot comprehend that properly right now.

My heart goes out to him and his family. I am glad they are all ok. That must have been so hard to go back to see.

the picture of the window boarded up, yet the water coming only a few inches below the window is almost funny(in a sick, twisted sort of way) boarding up the windows, like they tell you to do in a hurricane, didn't do a dang bit of good to help.

Thank you for such a private glimpse into the tragedy of New Orleans. Images like this really bring the gritty reality home, unlike the censored and tame images one usually gets from the news. The sense of loss is immense.

Thats horrible. Hopefully most of the home can be saved. It's a nice house.

Yep. I know what you mean. You see images, here and there, of the flooded neighborhoods. Hundreds and hundreds of flooded houses. This brings it into focus. This is someone's...home. This is, literaly, an inside view into the devastation of that which someone went to work, day in and day out, to build. Gone.

Thank you, Blackthorn.

That made me cry. For me viewing these pictures of the flood victims has been hard because I was once the victim of a flood myself. Many of our possessions that we didn't manage to shove into the attic were ruined completely or damaged. We lost a lot of things and were homeless for a month.

It's hard but sometimes you have to realize things are just things, and at least everyone is safe and sound--that's what's important.

I hope they end up fine, whatever happens.

I hate to say it, but your cousin looks somewhat fortunate compared to others. The house looks okay structrually, but the interior is fucked. It sucks that this had to happen. I'm glad that they're all safe.

I was standing in my dining room and trying to imagine what it would be like to be in chest deep water. I just cannot imagine it. The boarded window is really and oddity when compared against how high the water is inside.

And tspikes51 you are right...it appears they got off easy but the house will be a total loss. The entire structure will not be sound after sitting in water for this long. They still don't have a good answer from their insurance company but they have gotten some help from them. He has a new job in Tennessee. His wife and two girls aged 7 and 9 are in CA with her parents but when they went out there they took nothing but a couple days worth of clothing thinking that they'd be able to go back home in just a few days. She was a school teacher in New Orlean's and is now jobless. The two girls are enrolled in a school in southern CA. They literally have to start over. All in all they are really among the lucky but what a horrible tragedy nonetheless.

ACK!
I'd start crying. Looks like they were lucky that at least some of their stuff looks salvageable. (rather than utterly obliterated)