The Automatik

Before my trip to New Orleans earlier this month, I was nervous and anxious. I was scared to see the real-life version of the destruction that I had only previously viewed in photographic and video form. The closest analogy to what it felt like to finally witness the devastation of the city from the failed levee floodwalls is the feeling I got the first time I boarded a plane and I exclaimed, “It looks just like it does in the movies!” Read more

Yesterday, I returned to Canada from New Orleans. I had gone to New Orleans for my grandmother’s (aka Maw Maw) funeral. I had not been back to the area since June of 2005, two months before Hurricane Katrina struck. I knew that as difficult as it was going to be to bury my Maw Maw that I had to also visit my old neighbourhood of Lakeview to see what had changed in the eight months since the hurricane.

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