EVERYBODY's refrigerator was one of those. You see, when your power goes out in August, and it sits there in New Orleans heat and now it's October and it's still hot and you still have no power, what you do is seal up the doors and haul it outside. You don't even open the damn thing; it's unhealthy. EVERYBODY had to ditch their fridge whether their home was flooded or not. Because of the lack of electrical power.
Matter of fact I have a pic of that.
Here's what a street in Mid-City looked like in October, after paths had been plowed through the debris. This neighborhood was under eight feet of water. The expression on the car says it all.
I found it was easier than I expected to upload these photos, so I made an album out of them which you can peruse and point your finger and giggle how people "deserved it".
Let's do one more. Look at this building -- this is another part of town (Carrollton):
See that perfectly-straight line where the building stops? That's where the water was when it was burning, and that's why it burned down to a level line. That's another effect of a flood --- when there's water everywhere no fire department can get to anything, so it just burns down to the water on its own.
Here's the effect of that heat on the stop sign at the corner of that street: