Comments | artemisia_mia: isle of denial

artemisia_mia

isle of denial

Feb 28, 2006 02:10

andrei, resident of NOLA et le baton rouge, described the french quarter and environs -- faubourg marigny, bywater, etc. - as the isle of denial. apparently if you don't cross canal st. everything seems normal. but over there, on the other side of canal, all the neighborhoods looked bombed, nothing but rubble and tabandoned refrigerators with DO ( Read more... )

andrei

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liminalia February 28 2006, 13:24:02 UTC

The fridges don't actually sit out on the curb that long. There are a bunch of contractors paid to go get them, and they're paid per unit, so they're motivated.

liminalia February 28 2006, 13:25:21 UTC

Oh btw, parts of F-B and Bywater got pretty screwed up too. 'Twas more like the Quarter and Uptown he was speaking of.

artemisia_mia February 28 2006, 19:01:04 UTC

yeah, you rite.

artemisia_mia February 28 2006, 19:10:03 UTC

i was thinking of the abandoned houses too, after reading the salon article yesterday or maybe it was a T-P article. there are lots of those and fridges inside, and i was doing my little kid fantasizing (and also being curious) what will happen to those fridges and the ones at the landfill. will they eventually explode? eeeuuuwww. can you imagine hundreds of refrigs exploding, even if they're buried? and maggot blood getting into the ground water? sounds like a cheap sci-fi movie just waiting for a script to me. and ... and ... what if it's a hundred years from now and there's a subdivision on top of all those dead fridges and what if ...