Our final full day here before we depart tomorrow. We take a drive into the lower 9th area which was worst affected by Katrina
There are still a lot of abandoned houses - and empty plots
But a lot of new houses have been built - a lot of them courtesy of Brad Pitt - he's put in a lot of money into this area and sponsored architects and builders to rejuvenate the area. We spent a bit of time with this chap.
He is called Omar and is a Katrina survivor - he is in the process of writing a book about the people he helped. He said that the US government stopped officially counting the dead after 1800 - the true figure is 4 - 5000. So many people left and didn't return that no proper census has been made. You get the feeling that the whole incident is an embarrassment to the government (there are lot of conspiracy theories of course - the levee foundations being too shallow for one) and they want to suppress everything to do with Katrina.
We took a walk round the Garden district - you have all the nice houses
This one is yours for $ 9.5M
And this is John Goodman's place
The cemetery
Everyone's getting ready for Halloween
Finished up the day at a jazz club......... Niiiiice....
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