The Other Losses, Thanks To Katrina

i dont believe this has been touched on yet, and i do not mean in ANY WAY to take the seriousness (sp?) of the tradgedy down there away, but being a huge history buff, i wonder how much we have lost aside from homes and lives.
there is hundreds of years of history there. from cl***ic automobiles, to historic buildings, to things as minuet as maybe a pen used by abraham lincoln, or historical do***ents.
it does bother me to think of all of the vintage steel sitting 20 feet deep in water or crushed under a garge that caved in, or the storage facility that some poor sole thoght his car would be safely stored in.
i know it seems superficial but its not meant that way. but reality is that as we run out of these pieces of our history past and present we really suffer more and more as tradgedies like this happen
any comments? or feelings on this matter?

 

Just yesterday I was wondering about the National D-Day museum. Tragic on many levels.

 

too much to think about for me to worry much about alot of that stuff too much. just kinda shocked by the whole spectacle, really, and the depths and heights that human character has reached there. they're saying maybe 10,000 people died, which has gotta be the worst disaster for the US since maybe the 1906 california earthquake, don't know the figures for sure myself.

i am sad about the D-Day museum there, always wanted to see it. wonder how it fared.

 

to my knowledge 8k people was the worst tradgedy in US history, so untill its confirmed this is THE new record.

 

from what I've seen from the sattalite images the older part of town stayed pretty dry. don't know exactly where the D-Day museum is so I don't know if it was damaged

 

I agree, all in all peices of history are now gone forever, I just hope they will salvage what they can instead of just loading dumpster after dumpster of old wood work, cl***ic iron when the money for rebuilding comes in. If any of you guys need bulding supplies, but it now!!!

 

I agree that we have probably lost alot of history due to the m***ive distruction of Katrina. Although history has a new chapter due to Katrina.

 

yup with the history down there there will be some huge losses, on the positive I think there have been some lessons learnt and there will be a little more social responsibility the next time there is an evacuation order, expensive way to learn.......
Good to hear that the old part of town is looking o.k. I have seen some of the old houses on the TV here looking wet but otherwise o.k., lord knows how long to get the contamination in that water cleaned up.

 

I know for a fact that the exhibit of items from the recently discovered Civil War era steam ship, "Republic" is safe, my buddy who works for Odyssey says there was little of no damage.

I just saw on the news that the first street lights in New Orleans just came back on.

 

bump

 

From talking with my friends, a good amount of the historical points of interest are still standing or sustained not too much damage. I know there's a few buildings that didn't make it, which ones exaclty I'm not sure. I do know that a lot of homes, mainly the antebellum ones got pretty damaged.

RRR

 

i'd be lying if i said i was'nt wondering the same thing. i was shocked and relieved to see the TV coverage of the old French quarter that was hardly touched. when the French originaly built New Orleans they built on the higher ground of the area. as the town grew people started to build in the flood planes. a mistake the current residents are paying for.

 

I think we have all given the loss of historical items some thought after watching the human loss and displacement. The entire event is a replay of what has happened all over the world throughout history. Whole cities are uncovered by archaeologists, we have had the sad occasion to see nature at its worst, but we have the ability and hopefully the will to rebuild.

 

Jefferson Davis' home, Beauvoir, in Biloxi is gone... such a shame, it was beautiful...

 

Actually I heard on NPR today that his house is damaged but saveable. There were two "out buildings" (I think they said one was a guest house converted to a museum) and they were totally washed away.

 

Here's some info on many historical places/sites:

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=KATRINA-ICONS-09-07-05&cat=AN

And some good news:

The National D-Day Museum escaped the flooding. Confederate Memorial Hall, across the street, also remained dry and its staff safe, according to curator Pat Ricci, quoted on the AAM Web site.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/gossip/12583004.htm

 

I'm just going by what my friend who lives there told me...