NEW ORLEANS – While they try to move on from the incident, workers in the normally raucous French Quarter described the mood as one of sadness less than two days after an early New Year’s Day terror attack left at least 15 people dead and 37 injured. Several blocks of the historic neighborhood and tourist attraction were closed for more than 24 hours as investigators sifted through evidence at the crime scene on Bourbon Street, which was reopened Thursday afternoon. Law enforcement from city, state and federal agencies maintained a visible presence throughout the French Quarter as businesses and street vendors opened their shops to prepare for an influx of customers after the Sugar Bowl, which kicked off at 3 p.m. New Orleans native Bear Neville is a longtime host at Olde NOLA Cookery, located in the 200 block of Bourbon Street. His workplace is just yards away from where Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old from Texas, barrelled through a crowd of revelers in a speeding pickup truck, according to authorities. According to the FBI, Jabbar died in a shootout with police in which two New Orleans police officers were wounded. Neville said he and his coworkers were closing up early Wednesday morning when they suddenly heard people screaming and saw a truck driving through the crowds. They unlocked the restaurant doors and went outside to assist the victims and brought some people inside for cover, he said. “It was a crazy night,” Neville said. Toby Lefort, a New Orleans native and bartender at the Bourbon Pub in the 800 block, said there was a noticeably “somber” feeling in the area Thursday. “The city that we all love is devastated — again,” Lefort said. “It’s true that New Orleans is a very resilient place, but how long do we have to keep being resilient?” Surveillance footage also showed Jabbar placing a homemade bomb at the intersection of Bourbon and Orleans streets — a block away from Bourbon Pub – and another two blocks away, the FBI reported. The improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were placed inside small coolers. Lefort said he felt a little uneasy when he saw a woman pulling an ice chest down the street Thursday. “Something we thought of nothing before, all of a sudden we have to worry about,” he said. The FBI said surveillance video shows other people noticing the coolers. While they are not considered suspects, investigators want to speak to anyone who saw them in the French Quarter Hot dog vendor Stahili Glover, also a New Orleans native, said he worries what the incident could mean for the country. “We have to work to understand each other,” Glover said. “To me, extreme religion of any kind is always a problem.” According to the FBI, Jabbar posted five videos on his Facebook page in which he claimed his support for Islamic State. Police also recovered an ISIS flag that was hung from a plastic flagpole on the trailer hitch of Jabbar’s truck. Brian Hodder, who is visiting New Orleans from Hawaii, said he is so far impressed with the response from the community and doesn’t feel unsafe. “I definitely want to come back,” he said.