New Orleans MT-2

The most shocking thing about being down there is the sheer enormity of all the devastation... When I watched video clips of all the damage and stuff on the news, I realized that it didn't seem that horrific because I was only seeing little bits and pieces of it here and there; I'm accustomed to seeing damage like this on TV on a small scale but to be in the midst of something on a huge scale like that was sincerely overwhelming. House after house, street after street, block after block...and it wasn't like it was relegated to an area of the city either. We went from one parish to another, and the effects of the hurricane seemed to be everywhere. You stand in the road looking at the remains of a building, the remains of life once there and it renders you speechless. Like my friend Katie said, it was the weirdest thing driving on the freeway at night as we passed neighborhood after neighborhood of darkness devoid of light and people. Its crazy to imagine that all this emptiness was full of life just 6 or 7 months ago...it was and still is difficult to process such a juxtaposition.