This slideshow (via AWholeLottaNothing, via MeFi) is absolutely amazing: a 1st person account of riding out the storm in New Orleans. Matt describes better than anyone else what these pictures capture:
“…calm followed by surprise and confusion and later untold devistation.”
As someone who’s only visited NOLA once, this really put it in perspective. Jackson Square, Pat O’Brian’s, The Hyatt, The Superdome, Canal Street: all of the major landmarks photographed by a regular guy that ends up stealing a car to flee to Houston. What a story…