Learning in NOLA!

Canterbury@ULM spent Monday with Fr. Walter Baer touring the city and learning about how the city flooded after Katrina and new flood protection still under construction. We saw rebuilding, but we also saw empty slabs and lots and even a few boarded up homes that have not been touched since Katrina.

About to leave the Five Continents B&B where we had Morning Prayer and breakfast.

What could be more fun than an original-architecture McDonald's?!

That little patch of fresh concrete wall marks the 17th St. Canal levee break that flooded the center of the city, all the way from Lake Pontchartrain to the edge of the French Quarter--7 miles.

On the lake end of the 17th St. Canal levee, a new flood wall structure prevents high water from entering the mouth of the canal. The horizontal smoke stacks on the left are for a row of giant Caterpillar engines that lower the flood wall to block the openings across the lake end of the canal.