Pictures of My House

Dan has posted all of his pictures from his trip to New Orleans. These are a few of them.


This is the basement apartment of my building. The caretaker, Don, lived there. His beloved drumset is still inside...



The facade of 4237 Fontainebleau Drive, which I called home for about two weeks. My apartment is the whole middle floor (both sides).



This was the living room of my apartment. And no, I didn't leave it in this state! Obviously the wind's been up to something in there.



This is Dan Sarrell, he's a Tulane 1L at University of Richmond. He took lots of self-portraits on this trip. This is also one of the best shots of the roof problem.



Another picture of good ol 4237.



This purse was once a really nice black bag. It's hanging on the inside of my closet door...apparently all the clothes in the closet are in a similar condition.



This is the bedroom. That hole in the ceiling is new.





I spoke with my landlord this afternoon and he sounded very depressed and out of sorts. He informed me that the roof has been blown off the building. (That's why you can see a piece of it hanging down the front of the house in the pictures.) It's funny, a few weeks ago Ben posted a satellite image of our block on his blog and noted, first, that the water had reached 7.5 feet and second, that the roofline looked funny. I had admonished him like, "hey, our place just has a weird roof, remember?" But he was right.

So hopefully we'll be able to hire out an acquaintance (former employee) of Judy's living in Covington to go get the rest of the salvageable stuff from the apartment and hold onto it until we can get down there.