bywater architectural patrimony
shotgun house
creole cottage
endangered shotgun house
nice photos of the 'camelback' houses too. ty bill.
Though nobody yet knows the full extent of the damage, 80 percent of New Orleans has been flooded since early this week. Even under slightly better circumstances, Carliner says, the majority of homes, including many historic ones, could not be salvaged.
"With clean water, if you submerge a house for a week, it's not going to be livable anymore," Carliner says. The water that has inundated New Orleans since levees against Lake Pontchartrain failed is polluted with chemicals and sewage. "It would be very difficult to get those contaminants out of the houses."
I've done volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity. They do a good job. I would expect them to help in NOLA.
i set up a user name guestman and password guestman for this better than average essay from the boston globe :
THIRTY YEARS AGO, in their book ''3000 Years of Urban Growth," the historians Tertius Chandler and Gerald Fox calculated that of all the cities that had been flooded, burned, sacked, leveled by earthquake, buried in lava, or in some way or another destroyed worldwide between 1100 and 1800, only a few dozen had been permanently abandoned. Cities, in other words, tend to get rebuilt no matter what.
mark, selma and everybody, this one is worth the effort. its, reassuring.
There have been many floods in the Greater New Orleans area over the years and the homes do get renovated and the idea that submersing a home in clean water makes it permanently unlivable is ludicrous, so add a little raw sewage, no, not ideal, but life will go on in NO. I think there exists a gross misunderstanding of pre-existing levels of cleanliness (I mean lack thereof) in NO. For example, if my house on Rocheblave took two or three feet of water inside I will pull out the one room of carpet, remove bottom four feet of sheetrock throughout, pull out insulation, spray a little bleach solution, re-insulate, re-sheetrock, paint, refinish wood floors, voila, life goes on. Now, if my roof is damaged and exposed to elements for the next four months or so, well, a little more work, ok, fuck, a lot of work involved, and materials will be hard to get and its gonna be a bitch, so.
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shotgun house
creole cottage
- bill 9-06-2005 9:42 pm
endangered shotgun house
- bill 9-06-2005 10:19 pm [add a comment]
nice photos of the 'camelback' houses too. ty bill.
- selma 9-07-2005 1:15 am [add a comment]
- bill 9-07-2005 2:34 am [add a comment]
I've done volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity. They do a good job. I would expect them to help in NOLA.
- mark 9-07-2005 9:48 pm [add a comment]
i set up a user name guestman and password guestman for this better than average essay from the boston globe :
mark, selma and everybody, this one is worth the effort. its, reassuring.
- bill 9-07-2005 10:40 pm [add a comment]
There have been many floods in the Greater New Orleans area over the years and the homes do get renovated and the idea that submersing a home in clean water makes it permanently unlivable is ludicrous, so add a little raw sewage, no, not ideal, but life will go on in NO. I think there exists a gross misunderstanding of pre-existing levels of cleanliness (I mean lack thereof) in NO. For example, if my house on Rocheblave took two or three feet of water inside I will pull out the one room of carpet, remove bottom four feet of sheetrock throughout, pull out insulation, spray a little bleach solution, re-insulate, re-sheetrock, paint, refinish wood floors, voila, life goes on. Now, if my roof is damaged and exposed to elements for the next four months or so, well, a little more work, ok, fuck, a lot of work involved, and materials will be hard to get and its gonna be a bitch, so.
- jimlouis 9-10-2005 12:24 am [add a comment]