Haunted House 2

Posted by Viewfinder (Bradenton, FL, United States) on 24 October 2007 in Architecture and Portfolio.

So it's been two years, plus some six or seven weeks, since Hurricane Katrina destroyed a way of life for tens of thousands of people in metro New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. That way of life has not returned to "normal" and probably never will, by the standards used to measure "normal" in those places of my heart.

Here is a haunting look back at part of one Katrina-damaged home. This is what the inside of my mother in law's formerly neat and tidy little suburban house looked like, after the 12 foot flood waters subsided, after her floating furniture settled to new and weird positions around the rooms, after the ceilings collapsed and toxic spots of black mold grew up the damp and mushy walls.

Scary, yes? What I can offer is an image of the look; what the image cannot contain is the horrible stench of decay and rot, and the feelings of hopelessness which Katrina left behind. Trick or treat...

Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6
1/40 second
F/2.8
ISO 160
35 mm (35mm equiv.)

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