Here is a list of rubbish in our backyard left from Katrina, 7 YEARS LATER. Most of it was pushed up against the back of our fence, backing up to St. Bernard Ave.
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| After over a month of cleaning, the backyard stil looks destroyed - June 2012 |
- one leg to a baby doll
- one way sign, including the sign post
- beer & liquor bottles and cans, almost five large trash bagss worth
- shoes, at least 8 different shoes, none of which match
- seven trashcans full of glass shards
- mattress
- futon
- shells from Lake Pontchetrain
- carpet from at least a 12x20 ft. room
- more carpet in more colors
- 3 vhs tapes
- concrete
- oyster shells
- clothes
- bicycle wheels, rims, gaurds, & frames
- book binders
- some other street sign too destroyed to read
- bricks, two doghouses worth (some of these are now our fire pit)
- three garden hoses
- a room worth of floor tile
- another room worth of roof tile
- a cooler
- the head of a ceramic duck
- parts of a baby carrier
- cell phone and battery
- cell phone case
- 1 broken record (ha!)
- tube of toothpaste
- every part of a house possible to fall off
- insulation
- frisbee
- 6" piece of braided hair tied with twine (yes, this is incredibly creepy)
- deoderant
- the tenant of my house during Katrina's wallet
I am continually adding to this list as we unearth more of the debris layer by layer....
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| June 2013 - Our backyard one year later. We've doe a lot of work! |
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