Did you take any pictures for us?
I might take SWA fun fare over and see it.
I intended to and to post them here but my digital camera crapped out on me....and it's something more serious than batteries.
As closely as I've followed this and all of the pictures I've seen of the devatation on the web, neither prepared me for the utter ruination I saw in east New Orleans. those people who think they'll move back into the (th Ward or other neighborhoods in that area are deluding themselves badly. It won't happen.
This study just about drives the final nail in the coffin for those areas I drove by last weekend....and for some others further south. No way will private lenders finance homes in large numbers in an area that's sinking at the rate it is. And why continue to spend billions to build levees when the levees themselves are sinking. East NOLA, St. Bernard Parish, Plaquemine Parish are finished. Politicians will give lip service to recovery but that's all it'll be. People who can't rebuild because they can't get financing because they can't buy flood insurance won't move back in large enough numbers for these areas to recover.....ever.
It's strange to think of an area that large and home to 150-200,000 people simply turning into a ghost town....... or ghost parishes.