Devacuation...
An update on my status:
On Tuesday, my Father and I drove down to New Orleans to survey the situation/get some of my things. We left St. Louis (where I am staying for the time being) at 2:00 a.m. Tuesday, drove to N.O., did our thing, and then drove straight back to St. Louis, arriving at 1:00 a.m. Wednesday. Quite a trip...
Anyway, in New Orleans we found that, happily, my apartment got through the hurricane and aftermath relatively unscathed. The only real issue was with my refrigerator, which was a bit gross (the freezer was filled with maggots that froze when the power went back on last week), but it cleaned up ok. All of the windows etc. were intact. Loyola's campus was also in pretty good shape, and I was able to recover things from my office with relative ease.
As for the rest of the area: our travels were pretty much restricted to the Uptown area of New Orleans, which fared the best overall. Things looked pretty good, all things considered. The most striking thing was that there were literally hundreds of refrigerators sitting by the side of the road. Presumably, people came back to clean up and found that their fridges were so gross that they decided to throw them away. Aside from that, there was just downed limbs, a few uprooted trees, and relatively minor wind damage. Of course, I didn't go to the areas that really flooded...
On Tuesday, my Father and I drove down to New Orleans to survey the situation/get some of my things. We left St. Louis (where I am staying for the time being) at 2:00 a.m. Tuesday, drove to N.O., did our thing, and then drove straight back to St. Louis, arriving at 1:00 a.m. Wednesday. Quite a trip...
Anyway, in New Orleans we found that, happily, my apartment got through the hurricane and aftermath relatively unscathed. The only real issue was with my refrigerator, which was a bit gross (the freezer was filled with maggots that froze when the power went back on last week), but it cleaned up ok. All of the windows etc. were intact. Loyola's campus was also in pretty good shape, and I was able to recover things from my office with relative ease.
As for the rest of the area: our travels were pretty much restricted to the Uptown area of New Orleans, which fared the best overall. Things looked pretty good, all things considered. The most striking thing was that there were literally hundreds of refrigerators sitting by the side of the road. Presumably, people came back to clean up and found that their fridges were so gross that they decided to throw them away. Aside from that, there was just downed limbs, a few uprooted trees, and relatively minor wind damage. Of course, I didn't go to the areas that really flooded...
Posted by J.C. Berendzen on
Thursday October 6, 2005 at 4:27pm
Glad to hear your possessions were in relatively good shape. One question though: if maggots appeared in your freezer, which I presume was closed, does that mean that insect eggs were present in your food prior to the hurricane? I mean, unless you are going to argue for spontaneous generation, wouldn't that have to be the case? And we thought Seth was messy...