I had seen a tv show that described the desegregation of the New Orleans Schools in 1960. The first school to be integrated was Frantz public school, pictured above (9). The tenth picture shows the school from the other side, and the eleventh is a look up the same street. Frantz school is closed now, but is apparently not going to be closed for all time (for the time being). Driving there from downtown on Galvez St, I saw the house in the last picture. There are lots of spray painted references to animals left in homes during the flood, references to dog food and water having been dropped off for them. This one is just more detailed than many others.

After I heard on the radio that the thunderstorm concerns (and tornado watch) would not be an issue until dinnertime, I drove southeast from the city to Plaquemines Parish, where Hurricane Katrina officially made landfall. I do not know how to pronounce the name of the town where the hurricane officially came ashore. It's spelled B-U-R-A-S. Above (5-8) are some pictures from the town of Buras. There is a center serving three meals a day, there was a sign that said "now have gas" at a service station. It looked very much like the south side of the railroad tracks on the Mississippi Coast in Oct 05.

I returned to Biloxi via 90 and enjoyed dinner with Marie M. - Fried green tomatoes and crawfish etoufee. I took pictures of Marie's living room and backyard in 05. At the top are pictures from her home today, along with one of her cat, Missy, a hurricane survivor (like her two co-cats- and Marie herself - the four of them spent the storm hours together in a bedroom of that house).