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Post-Hurricane Katrina Information

The following links and information were submitted by owners in the days following the hurricane. You may also want to read through the web log for additional insight.

• September 26th - Sandra Dartus-Horwitz forwarded a slideshow of photographs, accompanied by music. They are pretty powerful and truly depict what happened in New Orleans during Katrina. This is a 3MB PowerPoint Slide Show and unless you have a high speed connection, it will take a long time to download. The Great USA Flood
   
• September 17th Update from Bill Prentiss, General Manager, including information on the Hotel de la Monnaie Relief Fund.
   
• Sep 9th, update email from Board Member Sandra Dartus-Horwitz. Thank you Sandra!
   
• Sep 6th, link to an excellent aerial photo from John Fillebaum that shows the hotel (mini pic at right). He forwarded a word document that includes an image obtained from the following link. [The link below contains an aerial photo of the quarter the shows the hotel clearly. It is a large file. You can view it here: DOCUMENT or go to the original link here: [http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/katrina/ new_orleans_dwtn_aug31_05_dg.jpg] You can read more in the blog.
   
• Sep 5th, email from Board Member Sandra Dartus-Horwitz (see below).

It sounds like the Hotel will survive. If you would like to add some information to this posting, send it to me at coxm@team-support.com.

Satellite Photos

CNN has satellite photos (see below). If you visit their site, you can zoom in, but not close enough to see details.

Before (March 9, 2004)	After (August 31, 2005)
Photos are by Digital Globe. The interactive version can be viewed at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/katrina.maps.html. Visit the CNN web site.

Read related articles:

John Fillebaum sent a link to an aerial photo from Aug 31st that shows the flooding, or lack of flooding, in our part of the quarter. View it here: www.digitalglobe.com/ images/katrina/new_orleans_dwtn_aug31_05_dg.jpg or read more below.

Spared history might be Big Easy's salvation
French Quarter, Garden District appear largely intact
(Monday, September 5, 2005; Posted: 12:11 p.m. EDT (16:11 GMT) at http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/03/
katrina.french.quarter/index.html.

Katrina Damages New Orleans Landmarks
Sep 3, 12:30 PM EST
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=200558

A writer friend of ours, Jim Carrier, had just moved from Montgomery to New Orleans and wrote an article for the Philadelphia Inquirer. While it doesn't speak of Hotel de la Monnaie, it is one more piece of the tragedy of the levy breaches and resulting flooding.

You can read information and thoughts from owners around the country below.

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