Pictures of Flooding Uptown

[catherinehooper]

These pictures were taken by a friend of a friend who went back last week to check on their house in uptown - the Claiborne/Nashville area. This was the text of the email that they sent:

> Uptown Flooding Pics - Boat Ride
>
> My neighbour and I took a boat ride through Uptown
> flooded flooded streets yesterday morning. Overall
> impression - things aren't good. The stench was
> horrible, there was dead silence in the air
> occasionally broken up by barks of household dogs
> left behind at homes. Our route was as follows:boat
> launch at Nashville and Freret. Travel north on
> Nashville to cross Claiborne into Broadmoor. Right
> on Rocheblave. Return through Robert and Octavia
> back on Nashville. I took over 120 pics of the
> streets. Overall impression: news aren't good. Water
> 5-6 feet high on the street, every home is affected
> starting two blocks past Freret. Dead body floating
> at the corner of Octavia and Rocheblave. Our house
> at 4900 block of Rocheblave has 3 feet of water. We
> di! dn't even go into it. Pictures cover our
> route:Boat launch at Nashville and Freret. Travel
> north on Nashville, cross claiborne. Go into
> broadmoor, take a right on S. Rocheblave (we live on
> that street). Head out back on Robert, Octavia and
> Nashville.
>
> click here for an online slide show:
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Please note that there is a graphic picture of the corpse they mentioned - its picture 22 (I would skip it).