West End is a small area of New Orleans on Lake Pontchartrain across the 17th Street Canal from Jefferson Parish.
The wind driven water must have been horrendous here. The Bruning house which sat on the small inlet had been there for 100 years and had withstood many hurricanes. Not a stick of it was found. Seafood restaurants rested on the pilings and on Friday nights families feasted on the bounties of the same sea that destroyed not only the restaurants but thousands of homes and 80 per cent of New Orleans.