APS Film Scans

I rode out Hurricane Georges at a friend's second-floor apartment in New Orleans (Metarie, actually), September 28, 1998 (nine years ago yesterday). Much hoopla, little hurricane. After the curfew was lifted in Jefferson Parish, I retrieved my car from the Lakeside Mall parking deck and headed home -- and was promptly struck by a drunk driver at Severn and Vets, not a hundred yards from where I'd parked for the hurricane. He was apparently rushing to Breaux Mart for some more beer. Cost my insurance company $3600 in repairs, but at least my Blazer was still driveable. The drunk yat's car was most likely totaled. Punch line: because my truck was still registered out of state, the LA state police didn't want to bother assigning fault, and the other driver didn't even get so much as a ticket.

The Reagan Building in D.C., August 1999. I worked across the street in 1991, when they were driving the foundation pilings for this building.

Mushroom cloud thunderstorm along I-10 east of Beaumont, September 4, 1999.

A wannabe roll-cloud along I-10 east of Beaumont, September 4, 1999.

Ominous cloud formations along I-10 east of Beaumont, September 4, 1999.

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.

September 1998.

September 1998.

September 1998.