"Isn't it racist not to rebuild New Orleans just as it was before?"
I drove into the Chocolate City from Slidell through east Orleans Parish the weekend before last. What I saw was appalling. Mile after mile of neighborhoods that are veritable ghost towns. These are, so far as I could see, some apartment complexes but mostly brick or wood frame homes built on the ground---probably now completely full of mold and eaten up by termites. Didn't see a single car or person moving in them. Not one. Empty, littered, debris-filled streets with no sign of life. Entire ruined shopping centers appeared to be untouched since the storm and maybe abandoned for good. Eerie. Looked like something from a science fiction movie set.
What that area needs the most is to return to what it was 150 years ago-----a cypress swamp.
"I drove into the Chocolate City ,,,,,,,
Mmmmmmmmmmm...CHOCOLATE......make mine dark for that extra antioxidant kick....
Did you take any pictures for us?
I might take SWA fun fare over and see it.