Fires burning off in the east cast a sickly shadow over the site of the proposed UMC today. Charity Hospital, still vacant, was barely visible off in the distance through the smoke. As a friend agreed this morning, the acrid lungfuls are appropo for New Orleans - there's always a tinge of the apocalypse in the air.
The churned remnants of S. Johnson Street sat in the heat.
Dust from equipment on the site added to the thick air.
At the old Grand Palace Hotel, workers had the wooden cover off the entry to the former parking structure.
The sooty air lingered in the French Quarter.
It hung like a pall over the tombs of St. Louis #2 Cemetery, visible below the elevated expressway that may yet disappear. The roofs of the Iberville Projects are visible as well - many of the buildings will soon be demolished under a redevelopment proposal put forward by HANO and Pres Kabacoff's HRI, likely under a federally funded "Choice Neighborhoods Grant."
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