Six Flags Theme Park, New Orleans Haunting new images reveal theme park devastated by Hurricane Katrina and left abandoned ever since. New Orleans has made a remarkable recovery since the city was devastated by flooding during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The haunting photographs, taken over the past six years, reveal an almost post-apocalyptic landscape dominated by twisted and corroded rides, now silent forever. Graffiti covers many of the buildings, welcoming visitors to Zombieland - a fitting name for the eerie park, which has been completely abandoned. Floodwaters ripped through the Six Flags amusement park, flattening 80 per cent of the buildings and damaging most of the rides beyond repair. For several months there were rumours that the sites leaseholders, Six Flags, would be able to reopen the park in 2006 or 2007, using an insurance payout. The firm took over the site, formerly known as Jazzland, in 2002. But it had been losing money and was struggling to attract visitors, making it the chains least popular park even before Hurricane Katrina. Most of the park has been reduced to tangled, rusty metal, after it was submerged for more than a month in a corrosive mixture of sea and river water. In 2006 Six Flags declared the park an effective total loss and tried to get out of its 75-year lease with the City of New Orleans, saying insurers were not paying out enough to repair it. According to the most recent reports, Southern Star Amusement filed a letter of intent to redevelop the park with the city council in January this year. Until then, Six Flags will remain as a haunting memorial to the devastation of Katrina.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:00:01 +0000
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