Rockzilla, the cover band I play in (that's one of many names we go by), has been playing in the Krewe of Nereids (NAIR-eeds) parade for 5 or 6 years now. We didn't know if they'd have the parade this year, given the devastation down there, but to our delight, they did, and it rolled yesterday.
Here are some pictures from the parade:
This is the Super Kmart, in whose parking lot the floats always line up.
Both shopping center parking lots that the parade uses as end points looked like this...
I couldn't stray far from the float we were on, so these pictures aren't great, but all the stores were gutted or boarded up.
And I couldn't get close enough to this float to get a good shot, but these guys used the ubiquitous FEMA tarps as decoration on the roof of their float...
And then here's a couple of shots of the boys...
It was cold, but not so bad once we started rockin'...
But Waveland was a mess. The only stores that seemed to be open were Wal-Mart and Rite Aid. And six months after the hurricane, there are still so many buildings that are just standing in ruins, not being fixed or demolished or what have you.
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