My First Apartment

The first apartment I ever rented out of school was in New Orleans East -- it's the one on the second floor above the green Blazer in the picture on the left, taken in November 1997. Then, the place was newly overhauled, freshly painted, and recently re-roofed. Nice place, but unfortunate location.

The picture on the right shows the same apartment building on March 9, 2006, following Hurricane Katrina. Note the height of the bathtub rings.

When I went by this place again in 2007, it had been scraped down to the foundation slabs. Like many of the apartment complexes in New Orleans East.