Photo Sequence: "Xavier University Transformed into Lake"

Text by Michael Grant, Photographs by Katrina Byrd, Special to Black College Wire and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine

 

Sunday, Aug. 28, 7:14 p.m. From her room on the fourth floor of the Living Learning Center dormitory, Katrina Byrd captured the early evening gloom and gathering clouds of the calm before the storm. The building across the parking lot is called St. Martin, a dorm for upperclassmen.  Just to the left of St. Martin, the Xavier South building houses administrative offices such as the registrar and financial aid, and classrooms used by the psychology, English and foreign language departments.
Monday, Aug. 29, 6:15 p.m. “We lost power early that morning,” Byrd said.  The storm pulled off shingles, tearing a hole in the roof of St. Martin.
Tuesday, August 30, 6:21 a.m. The view from her room shows worsening conditions after the levees broke: “The closer you tried to get to St. Martin, the deeper the water got.”
Wednesday, September 1, 10:25 a.m. Xavier University is transformed into a lake

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