is so active in the Crescent City. The house in the background has the typical post-Katrina Blue Roof: a protective (sort of) covering of blue plastic sheeting. The "blues" part is that the protection lasts only as long as the plastic sheeting, and going on half a year after the hurricane (yes, the end of February will mark 6 months since Katrina), a lot of this plastic sheeting has been reduced to blue confetti on the neighbor's lawn. But you see that the blue roof in the foreground is intact. That is because, I kid you not, these enterprising souls had their new roof outfitted with a blue roof: yes, the house (and a little separate shed in the back yard) has blue shingles!
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Blue Roof Blues (and other NOLA memories)
Well, I may be back in Chicago (brrrr!), but my heart is still full of New Orleans. Here's a picture I snapped on my way to the airport. I think it says something about the "come back" spirit that 
is so active in the Crescent City. The house in the background has the typical post-Katrina Blue Roof: a protective (sort of) covering of blue plastic sheeting. The "blues" part is that the protection lasts only as long as the plastic sheeting, and going on half a year after the hurricane (yes, the end of February will mark 6 months since Katrina), a lot of this plastic sheeting has been reduced to blue confetti on the neighbor's lawn. But you see that the blue roof in the foreground is intact. That is because, I kid you not, these enterprising souls had their new roof outfitted with a blue roof: yes, the house (and a little separate shed in the back yard) has blue shingles!
is so active in the Crescent City. The house in the background has the typical post-Katrina Blue Roof: a protective (sort of) covering of blue plastic sheeting. The "blues" part is that the protection lasts only as long as the plastic sheeting, and going on half a year after the hurricane (yes, the end of February will mark 6 months since Katrina), a lot of this plastic sheeting has been reduced to blue confetti on the neighbor's lawn. But you see that the blue roof in the foreground is intact. That is because, I kid you not, these enterprising souls had their new roof outfitted with a blue roof: yes, the house (and a little separate shed in the back yard) has blue shingles!
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