Yes, that water line would be over your head. This is from Lakeview, with a storm rolling in to the left, through a car window. Since Lakeview and several other areas that got hit hard are basically suburban cookie-cutter hells, those areas turned out like this:
Full curbs, fridges often full of rotten food, at each stop down the line.
Curbs full of belongings, furniture, clothes; often moldy or still waterlogged, in the case of mattresses.
The "luckier" areas, where people qualified, saw trailers in each driveway.
I was heartened to see kids biking down the road here, like in any neighborhood, which is why I took this shot.
Tons of new businesses sprang up or moved to the area, and advertised on every lightpole they could get ahold of:
I'm not real fond of these businesses, though I know their services are needed. To me, a lot of these are just making their money off the disaster--demolition, mold removal, businesses that buy up old houses, you name it--and others are just plain scams.
Lest you think it was just middle-class suburbia that got hit:
And the ubiquitous blue tarps:
And fridges. No electricity = rotting food. Most people probably checked theirs after they returned, then duct taped it shut and tossed it to the curb:
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