Katrina

New Orleans, Seven Months Later

Amanda Bilski

Spring break means tropical islands to some, but to Amanda Bilski, it meant going to Katrina-damaged areas of Louisiana and helping out for a week. Read on for her story and photos from her trip.

After traveling to Louisiana during spring break, I not only have a new perspective on life, but on the roles people can play. Driving through the now abandoned ghost-town of New Orleans, I observed an overwhelming amount of boarded windows and blue tarps everywhere. In some of the more affected areas like Lakeview, walls and roofs are missing on house after house on each street. One might guess an atomic bomb was dropped. Huge piles of debris clutter the lawns of what once were nice middle-class houses.



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