As we left New Orleans yesterday for St. Bernard State Park we drove through the lower 9th ward. Many reminders of the events of Katrina are seen on the houses still in ruin today. Nearly every house in New Orleans was searched for bodies and hazards, then the findings were noted by a spray paint marking left on the front of homes. The cryptic markings have meaning for who searched the site, the date the house was searched, any hazards such as gas, downed lines or dead animals and the bottom quadrant of the X indicates the body count. Controversy still surrounds the body count and even today, they are still finding the remains of people in houses that were checked in 2005.
Our short trip to the State Park in St. Bernards Perish took under an hour. Gary has learned to wear his gloves and open everything with care. When he went to hook up the rig in our site, there were two locals hiding in the electrical box. One little lizard lost his tail when Gary opened an electrical box. The tail twitched on the ground allowing the lizard to escape. Not to worry, this is a life saving technique for these lizards and a new tail will grow back.
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