Evacuee Assesses Damage

New Orleans evacuee Julia Bland got to go home for a few days late last month to assess the damage to her home and business.

Bland is director of the Louisiana Children’s Museum. She says the flooding to the lower parts of her house was extensive.

“The anxiety of not knowing was so huge and now that we know what we’re facing, it’s also huge, because there’s a time bomb. I mean if we don’t get things out quickly the mold will continue and what was fine, won’t be fine.”

Bland says furniture had floated all over the place so the house on the lower floor was in a chaotic state. She says she’s most distraught over losing family photographs soaked by the dirty floodwaters.

She says miraculously, the museum was intact with no flooding and very little damage.

She’s currently living in Nashville and has plans on returning to New Orleans, but says the city has to get through hurricane season first.