Mardi Gras hangs on…
If you look closely you can see the Mardi Gras beads still hanging from this large branch. The branch was 6-8 inches in diameter at the break. The picture was taken the Monday afternoon right after the storm on the streetcar tracks on St. Charles Ave between Louisiana and Napoleon facing the city.
There was just something about the sight of those happy colored beads in the middle of all that destruction that made me smile and think everything was going to be alright - it wasn’t until nearly 24 hours later that I learned of the breach in the levee.
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This is nitpicking, I know, but it grates like metal on concrete: the word is levee, not levy. You levy a tax or a fine, you build a levee around a city so that it can break during a hurricane.
You are correct about the spelling and I’ve fixed it - I must have been distracted with trying to get the picture right - that’s my excuse anyway.