post katrina

i've been spending a lot of time tracking friends in new orleans, following the news there, hoping and praying that help comes. so far all our friends are reported to be okay, have found their way out, or have decided to stay to defend property. with some sense of sanity returning i'm breathing easier. the "blue house", the place our crew stays in for mardi gras looks like it sustained a lot of roof damage and, i'm guessing, a lot of interior water damage since the roof boards are showing. it looks like the tureau compound and gloria's house survived intact. the flooding got to within a half block of blue house. you can see the swimming pool is really dark for some reason, not clear like the other pools in the area. strange.

the tureau's place and gloria's place the blue house