Allegory on two axles
See this Katrina car? It appeared on the Broad St. overpass last Friday midday and was still there midday today. It kinda sums up where we find ourselves these days in New Orleans.
The overpass became home to many, many people in the days immediately after Katrina. Many folks who were rescued from rooftops or waded for blocks through skankwater finally found dry ground — where they sat for a few days in the blazing sunshine before finally being moved out. The bridge was left littered with human feces, soiled diapers and other deritus of misery we all lived through or saw on TV or otherwise experienced nearly 11 months ago.
By early October, the bridge was cleaned and has remained a good thoroughfare. We drive over it every day. Until last Friday — when someone, for some unexplained reason, left this car there. Where did it come from? It was obviously being moved somewhere, but was carefully left where it was — and still sits.
These days, this kinda junkass thing sits and sits and sits until someone finally gets the equipment and gumption and money to move it. Then, for some reason, the work stops in mid-process and the thing sits and sits and sits and eventually becomes a part of the landscape that no one pays attention to.
Outside of Uptown, the CBD, the French Quarter and a few islands in Mid-City, this is the state of New Orleans today — only 45 days short of the one-year anniversary.
C’mon down, y’all.
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For about a month,there’s been a car, missing its front-passenger side wheel, just hanging out at the Loyola Ave. & Girod St. parking lot.
Go check it out.
Sad.
Correction: Loyola Ave. & Girod St. *Bus Stop*
There’s an interesting little, black chevy something or other crashed up to the windshield into a house on Henry Clay if you’re heading toward the river from St Charles on the right. I started to take a picture of it this weekend but I was all dizzy from the drinking and laughing too much to hold the camera.
Friend of mine who lives near there said it just showed up there one morning a month or so ago. The house looks occupied which leads me to believe that someone who lives there owns that car and parked it there in the wee hours (when all the really crazy shit in the world happens).
Still, you’d think a police car driving by even weeks later would think ‘hhmmm, might want to check that out’. There are no stickers or anything to suggest the authorities are even aware of it.
Fucking sad.
UPDATE!!!
This car is gone as of this morning. I dunno if it was put back under some underpass or what, but it’s not on Broad anymore.