Has anyone seen that defining Hurricaine Katrina photo? [Archive]

mysteriew

09-11-2005, 08:31 AM

SieSie

09-11-2005, 10:32 AM

I've seen so many photos, all of which made me feel so sad, that I couldn't possibly pick just one picture. Here are 3 that really stood out to me:

http://tinypic.com/dmu2za.jpg

http://tinypic.com/dmu34k.jpg

http://tinypic.com/dmu360.jpg

2luvmy

09-11-2005, 11:38 AM

mysteriew

09-11-2005, 11:47 AM

So far they are all good. The lady wrapped in the flag tears your heart.

But that one that 2luvmy posted really touches me.
Besides the young and old, black and white- there is also a sense of the lines and the surrounding armed guard (which to me would be both frightening and comforting).

2luvmy

09-11-2005, 12:04 PM

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/US/09/06/katrina.kindness.reut/vert.grave.ap.jpg

The City Where the Dead Are Left Lying on the Streets
By Andrew Buncombe
The Independent UK

Tuesday 06 September 2005

In a makeshift grave on the streets of New Orleans lies the body of Vera Smith. She was an ordinary woman who, like thousands of her neighbours, died because she was poor. Abandoned to her fate as the waters rose around her, Vera's tragedy symbolises the great divide in America today.

However Vera Smith may have lived her life, one thing was certain. In death, she had no dignity. Killed in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, her body lay under a tarpaulin at the junction of Magazine Street and Jackson Avenue for five full days. Not her friends, her grieving husband, not her neighbours could persuade the authorities to take her corpse away.

Finally, disgusted by the way she had been abandoned - and concerned, too, about the health implications of advancing decomposition - her friends buried her in a makeshift grave. A local man fashioned a simple cross, and on top of the soil that was shovelled over her body he placed a white plastic sheet and wrote "Here Lies Vera. God Help Us."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605J.shtml

FACE-IT

09-11-2005, 01:36 PM

The photo that stands out to me is the IR Satellite view of Katrina just as it is getting ready to make landfall. The enormous magnitude, and essentially perfect configuration, of Katrina, shown in the Satellite imagery, was very awesome, and was something that isn't likely to be seen again, possibly, even in a lifetime.

Ticamom

09-12-2005, 08:13 PM

Hi Buzzm1 ! Do you have a link for that photo ? TIA .

The photo that stands out to me is the IR Satellite view of Katrina just as it is getting ready to make landfall. The enormous magnitude, and essentially perfect configuration, of Katrina, shown in the Satellite imagery, was very awesome, and was something that isn't likely to be seen again, possibly, even in a lifetime.

JBean

09-12-2005, 08:24 PM

what a great topic. Seeing these pictures all together is powerful and moving.

concernedperson

09-12-2005, 08:33 PM

I don't have a link right now but that was the telling story to me. This huge storm with a well defined eye.The warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and bingo, the worst storm ever.The perfect storm with 80 foot waves and a vulnerable gulf coast. No barrier islands to releive and a compromised levee system. How could this horror not be comprehended?Anyone who can jump on and defend the "I don't know" or "weren't the levee systems in place" or "these people should have made it out" or "I am white cream puff and I don't want to think about this" are idiots of the first order. I think we have some that are about themselves and have no clue what it is to love others. And then there are some who actually do realize this and seek to make changes. So, to the people who do realize and don't glorify every government address and spin, I applaud you. I am off the stand unless someone challenges me.

vanillasky

09-12-2005, 08:49 PM

This photo has moved me more than any other photo I've seen. :(

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/WEATHER/08/30/katrina/top.grief.ap.jpg

Here is a link to the story behind the photo - I needed several tissues after reading it. I'm tearing up right now just thinking about it again. The last line in the story just breaks my heart even more:

The truck turned and made its way into the French Quarter, where jazz bands are known to lead joyful funeral processions through the storied streets. But the streets were deserted Tuesday, and there was no music for Bowie, just the whirring of helicopter blades above.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/31/katrina.bowie.ap/index.html

Casshew

09-12-2005, 09:03 PM

The photo that stands out to me is the IR Satellite view of Katrina just as it is getting ready to make landfall.
This one?

http://www.quehubo.com/eng/katrina/katrina5.jpg

WISCer

09-12-2005, 10:08 PM

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.aspx?type=ss&launch=9145300,9115520

I hope this link works. This picture tears my heart out. The despair in this mother's face and the innocence in her baby's face.

Casshew

09-12-2005, 10:16 PM

I hope this link works. This picture tears my heart out. The despair in this mother's face and the innocence in her baby's face.
I think it's this one you are talking about
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Casshew/FG/hurricane.gif

WISCer

09-12-2005, 10:21 PM

That's it! Thanks, Cass. Wonder what I did wrong? My hubby the 'puter geek around here and his down in Bay St. Louis, MS. trying to get a plant up and running after the hurricane.

Casshew

09-12-2005, 10:31 PM

You didn't do anything wrong, it's just the link is a flash slide show, so it's hard to just link to one pic :)

It's a great photo

Liz

09-12-2005, 11:40 PM

My favorite is this one (http://tinypic.com/dmu34k.jpg), posted by SieSie.

When I saw that on television, I thought to myself, "now there's a magazine cover shot".

It speaks volumes to me. Sadly, about a tired, thirsty, hungry, senior American citizen; shading herself from the roasting sun, in an American flag, waiting to be rescued.

It's almost surreal that it happened in America! :(

FACE-IT

09-13-2005, 12:41 AM

This one?

http://www.quehubo.com/eng/katrina/katrina5.jpgI liked the one on living color that uses a color scale to signify the amount of moisture being carried (usually around the eye, it is bright red). It really presses home how powerful a storm is.

Ticamom

09-13-2005, 07:57 PM

Thanks for the photos !

The photo that really got to me is the one of the lady crying in front of her husband's body. He died of lung cancer. This gets to me cause my dad passed away from lung cancer 10 months ago, and I keep thinking , There but for the grace of God.....

These poor people, my heart bleeds for them. God bless them.

Casshew

09-13-2005, 08:01 PM

I liked the one on living color that uses a color scale to signify the amount of moisture being carried (usually around the eye, it is bright red). It really presses home how powerful a storm is.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6e/Katrina2005-colorIR.GIF/250px-Katrina2005-colorIR.GIF
This one ?

Dez Perado

09-13-2005, 08:56 PM

I’m new and I’m not sure how to post pictures or links to pictures, but I am going to try.

I live in the effected area and for some reason I was spared much of the devastation. Downed trees, lost shingles and debris as far as one can see, but that is nothing compared to those living just a short distance south and west of me. However, the Mississippi gulf coast has been a part of my memories for as long as I have been breathing.

One of my favorite little out of the way places in this part of the country has always been Old-Town Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. That quaint little step into the past was leveled two weeks ago. I will miss it tremendously.

There was a little eatery along Beach Boulevard named the Fire Dog Saloon that served up a great burger and a great time on a Saturday afternoon. That place has a web site with pictures depicting the good times had there and the aftermath of Katrina’s wrath.

I’m going to try and post the ones that touched me the most deeply in my next post. If it doesn’t work, maybe someone will tell me how it should be done.

Thanks

Dez Perado

09-13-2005, 09:06 PM

The Pictures:

http://www.mylocalhotspots.com/images/companypics/925b.jpg (http://www.mylocalhotspots.com/images/companypics/925b.jpg)

http://www.mylocalhotspots.com/images/companypics/4932a.jpg (http://www.mylocalhotspots.com/images/companypics/4932a.jpg)

http://www.mylocalhotspots.com/images/companypics/4930b.jpg (http://www.mylocalhotspots.com/images/companypics/4930b.jpg)

http://www.mylocalhotspots.com/images/companypics/4933b.jpg (http://www.mylocalhotspots.com/images/companypics/4933b.jpg)

The Web Site:

http://www.firedogsaloon.com/ (http://www.firedogsaloon.com/)

poco

09-13-2005, 09:25 PM

It worked Dez - unbelievable how these places were just leveled!

Dez Perado

09-13-2005, 09:35 PM

It worked Dez - unbelievable how these places were just leveled!
In a moment the laughter can go to tears and then to never ending silence.

God bless the smiling faces that no longer walk amongst us. We will re-build and create a monument to your memories.

I never, never thought I would see such a thing happen twice in my lifetime……

Jules

09-13-2005, 09:51 PM

http://www.chron.com/

The Houston Chronicle just updated their site - the photo of the man being rescued brought tears to my eyes.

Casshew

09-13-2005, 10:37 PM

http://www.chron.com/

The Houston Chronicle just updated their site - the photo of the man being rescued brought tears to my eyes.
He is lucky to be alive, I hope he will recover

http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/05/09/13/front_rescue.jpg

Jules

09-13-2005, 10:39 PM

Yep, Cass, he is. I just wonder how many others will be found near death.

Thanks for posting the picture for me. :blowkiss:

Maybe So

09-14-2005, 12:21 AM

In most disasters there is always a photo that really stands out as defining the disaster. When I think of the bombing of the Murray Bldg, I think of the photo of the fireman holding the injuried baby in his arms as well as the photo of the bombed building. With WTC it was the fireman raising the flag they found in the ashes, and the firemen carrying the priests body.
So I am looking for canidate's for the defining photo for Hurricane Katrina.

Also talk about the photos you see and what they meant to you. (Please link to the photo if you can).
Thank you.

Actually I have always also thought that was a very powerfull picture of the fireman holding the baby. I always thought it was a picture of a fireman rescuing a baby from the wreckage...taking it to safety. However I saw in a documentary that the fireman is holding a dead child he has found in the wreckage... when you know that and see the look on the fireman's face looking down at that innocent in his arms...it is just about the most moving picture I have ever seen.

Dez Perado

09-14-2005, 11:42 AM

Here is another one that I found that kind of hits ya in the gut. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/photogalleries/hurricane_katrina_pets/images/primary/katrina_oil_dog.jpg

Dez Perado

09-14-2005, 11:51 AM

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/images/050830_gas_prices.jpg

NewMom2003

09-14-2005, 12:10 PM

[left]One of my favorite little out of the way places in this part of the country has always been Old-Town Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. That quaint little step into the past was leveled two weeks ago. I will miss it tremendously.

I was there about 3 years ago. We stopped there for lunch while driving to Florida and I just fell in love with that town. It was so beautiful and historic. Hard to believe that it's gone now.

The Houston Chronicle just updated their site - the photo of the man being rescued brought tears to my eyes.

This one really got me too Jules. I pray that he makes it.

Dez Perado

09-14-2005, 12:17 PM

[QUOTE=NewMom2003]I was there about 3 years ago. We stopped there for lunch while driving to Florida and I just fell in love with that town. It was so beautiful and historic. Hard to believe that it's gone now.QUOTE]

I loved roaming around the little place on a beautiful fall afternoon and hearing the abundance of wind-chimes ringing out from all the little shops along Beach Blvd. It was also a great place to be for the annual crusin' the coast event.

lynie

09-14-2005, 07:30 PM

Thanks Dez, for posting those links. I am truely sorry for all of the pain and loss in your part of our world. It is unimaginable to me, even after seeing the pictures....

BTW...I love your screen name, what a great idea!

concernedperson

09-15-2005, 05:27 PM

mysteriew

09-15-2005, 07:07 PM

CP, PM sent to you

concernedperson

09-15-2005, 07:15 PM

CP, PM sent to youIt isn't there yet.

mysteriew

09-15-2005, 11:51 PM

I have just received some awesome pictures of the actual hurricane as it was coming ashore. It was in an email. I don't know how to post them but if someone would pm me their email address I will forward to you. I am not computer savvy. Just if ya'll want to see them.

The pictures are up, and are totally AWSOME! Very powerful images!
And scary just to look at!
I posted them in their own thread, but they definately deserve to be in this thread also!
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=808131#post808131

vanillasky

09-16-2005, 04:45 AM

I agree. :( I saw an interview with her mother - it was heartbreaking.

Here is a link to it:
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1996/spot-news-photography/works/ff-640-med.jpg

Actually I have always also thought that was a very powerfull picture of the fireman holding the baby. I always thought it was a picture of a fireman rescuing a baby from the wreckage...taking it to safety. However I saw in a documentary that the fireman is holding a dead child he has found in the wreckage... when you know that and see the look on the fireman's face looking down at that innocent in his arms...it is just about the most moving picture I have ever seen.

PrayersForMaura

09-18-2005, 05:03 PM

Here is another one that I found that kind of hits ya in the gut. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/photogalleries/hurricane_katrina_pets/images/primary/katrina_oil_dog.jpg
ugh, that tears me up!! :(
was the poor thing saved?!?! :(

Casshew

09-22-2005, 08:21 AM

Gabby... they are not of Katrina.

There was a whole thread (http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29284&highlight=snopes)on those pics, they are real pics - but not of Katriana. Snopes has a page on them :(

Shadow205

09-22-2005, 08:39 AM

Yeh, I got these same pictures in an email, they are gooing around the net. My email said they were taken in Alabama.

vanillasky

10-08-2005, 01:13 AM

http://www.startribune.com/stonline/images/news12/DTI_1717074.l.jpg

Tanisha Blevin, 5, held the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina victim Nita LaGarde, 105, as they were evacuated Saturday from the New Orleans Convention Center, where thousands of refugees still remain.

This is one of my favorites. It depicts black and white, young and old, enduring the horrors of Katrina together, hand in hand.

Just saw a follow up on the 2 people in this photo, thought you might be interested! :)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/US/10/07/katrina.nita.ap/story.nitanow.ap.jpg

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- When the TV is off and the only sounds in the neat, three-bedroom house come from the hum of the air conditioner and the gurgle of an aquarium, 89-year-old Nita LaGarde sometimes has to fight back tears as she falls asleep in her white wooden bed with clean linens.

"This is nice," she says.

The tears are not so much for what she lost, but for what she has found -- a new life and new, loving friends in Houston, a city she had never even visited until a month ago during the culmination of a hellish journey.

America met Mama Nita, as she is known, and 5-year-old Tanisha Belvin as they fled the horror of the New Orleans Convention Center in the days immediately following Hurricane Katrina.

A grim-looking LaGarde was seen sitting in a wheelchair, her withered white hand clasping Tanisha's tiny black hand, in a September 3 photograph taken by Eric Gay of the Associated Press. The photo of their rescue from the convention center was published on front pages around the nation, and the pair became a symbol of the disaster.

FULL STORY: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/07/katrina.nita.ap/index.html