I have not heard from anyone in NO for quite a while, but
my Dixie Beer Microbox was placed on the highest land in
the city, so it has a chance of still being there. Let me
know what you find if you go for it. Good luck!

Silver Eagle

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, cherieph@a... wrote:
>
> I'll be heading that way over Pres Day weekend. Wondering if any
boxes
> survived the Hurricane. Anyone have any up-to-date information?
> thanks
> BookWorm in CT
>
>
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Well, BoxdN would be the one to tell you, but at last contact his
internet access is intermittent at best. My guess is that any boxes in
City Park did not survive; that area was under about seven feet of
water. Audubon Zoo area might be questionable too.

Check carefully the areas that you plan on going to. Much of New
Orleans is still without power, I understand. The French Quarter is OK
but that's about it.

Your best bet is to search on LbNA for listed boxes, write the
placers, and keep your fingers crossed.

Knit Wit

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, cherieph@a... wrote:
>
> I'll be heading that way over Pres Day weekend. Wondering if any
boxes
> survived the Hurricane. Anyone have any up-to-date information?
> thanks
> BookWorm in CT
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Unless things have drastically changed since last Sept, I guarantee my
Supra Orleans box is still there--high & dry. Not sure about any of my
other 3 NO boxes--they're probably still there--just don't know how
nice the logbooks would be today. Yeah, I highly doubt the City Park
boxes are there--except the Dixie Beer one might be alright. A few
boxes in Kenner might be okay. Not a clue about any of the others.

:(

Let us know what you find,

dvn2r ckr

Long Live New Orleans
Placed by: Wes&Roxi (Contact the Placer)Your status: (none)
Placement date: Dec 28 2005
State: Louisiana
County: Orleans
Nearest city: New Orleans
Number of boxes: 1
Clues
Clue Difficulty: Easy

Terrain: Easy

Placed by Wes&Roxi on December 28,2005.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall for the second time in
the United States striking New Orleans before moving to strike Biloxi and
coastal Mississippi. In the hours that followed the storm, it appeared that New
Orleans fared better than Mississippi, but when the city's levee system failed,
the below sea-level city filled like a bowl completely submerging several square
miles. Some said it would take six months to drain the city and a year before
it would be habitable again, but residents are trying to bring it back more
quickly and are making progress every day.

Being from Louisiana, Wes&Roxi had hoped to get a chance to find letterboxes
in New Orleans, but most were probably lost in the flooding. So we made a trip
almost four months to the day after Katrina's landfall and planted the Long
Live New Orleans letterbox.

Clues:

Starting on St. Charles Ave. in front of Loyola University, find Calhoun St.
on the east side of Audubon Park.

Travel south on Calhoun St. for three blocks and turn right on Hurst St. (3rd
right after St. Charles).

Park at the end of Hurst St. and walk towards the left of a line of bushes
along a sidewalk.

Thanks for all the advise from all of you! I'm looking forward to going and
searching for any signs of 'box'. And I promise to be careful!
BookWorm in Ct


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I'm thinking that probably one of my west-bank boxes
could have survived. It was deep in a stump and the
area didn't get much damage from Katrina, but might
have been flooded during Rita. My two boxes are
Lafitte's Treasure and Nelson the Nutria. If you give
it a go and find either, let me know.

Armadillo Jo