nomadic tendencies: August 2005

katrina: Belhaven

this house is down the street from "el castille" on kenwood where me, joe, elli and john used to live. it's only about 4 houses down. the "hippie house" was fine.

these were taken surrounding Merilee Olp's parents house.

on campus at Belhaven

this tree fell right between the library and Fitzhugh Hall, you can see Fitzhugh in the background.

hurricane Katrina: Belhaven

These are raw, unedited pictures, after my computer is fully up and running, i will edit them and post again, and keep in mind this is only how Belhaven neighborhood looks...some places in Jackson are better, some are worse. 97% of the Jackson Metro area has no power, and we are currently boiling all water. Fondren seems to have gotten some of the least amount of damage, as of this morning, I have water and electricity...but, i am one of very few. also, my office got power this morning, so I am also back to work. Most of the colleges are out until Tuesday, Sept. 6th. Belhaven was asking students to leave if they can, because they don't have power or enough water for all the on campus students living in the dorms. Things are slowing going to be getting back to normal in Jackson with some people returning to work today. But, as you know, New Orleans and the Coast received the most damage...I have some friends up from New Orleans right now, who might be staying for a while.
As for these pictures: Belhaven seems to have taken a beating mostly because their are just so many trees.

as you can see many trees are blocking the roads, and are the reason for the outages.

These are from the Video Cafe Fundraiser on Aug. 19th

We raised around 1,700 dollars, had about 200 people show up, and hopefully raised awareness about Video Cafe and Rainbow/High Noon
...and it was Elli's 25th Birthday.

Has anyone ever even seen the Life Aquatic?

These are all pics from 23, 24, 24, 25: Mutiny on the Belafonte: A life aquatic themed birthday party for Steve Harvey and myself held at jelli's new apt.