In the meantime, murder rate in NO is climbing, Blankos program to get citizens is in shambles, wildlife now reside in vacant homes, fields are being raped, women are being pillaged...
Would you rather vacation in a beautiful setting with great sandy beaches where you and your family are safe? Or would you rather vacation in a slime infested drunken brothel of a city where drunks and homosexuals abound and women get beads for showing their breasts,and you can get knocked in the head at any moment.
They do anything productive in that town?
Here too, is the link to Beavoir's website:
It's good to see that work has begun on reconstruction and preservation.
Last May I spent a day driving all over New Orleans. I was appalled at the destruction. I was amazed that so little had been done in the eight months since Katrina hit. Hundreds and hundreds of homes and businesses, damaged and not touched since Katrina. Just sitting and rotting.
This past September I spent a day driving around the Mississippi coast, including Biloxie, Pascagoula and Gulfport. I was amazed at (compared to NOLA) how little damage could be seen. People I spoke with graphically described what the area had been like after Katrina. Like night and day.
Heartened by what I saw in Mississippi, I drove over to New Orleans. Wow, what a disappointment. Many damaged buildings and homes I saw last May looked exactly the same in September. The big difference I saw was that there seemed to be MORE FEMA trailers. Naive me, I figured there would be less :)
IMHO, large parts of NOLA have been a snakepit for a long, long time. But there was no publicity. Until Katrina hit.
Kudos to Mississippi and shame on NOLA.
Biloxi-We have been set back but we are on track to become better than we were pre-Katrina.
I wonder what created such a difference in mindset between the two?
Yes and no. The full brunt of the storm hit the Mississippi coast, NOLA only got the wind and part of the tidal surge. Had it not been for the levies breaking, NOLA would not be in the shape it's in.
I live East of Biloxi, in the Florida panhandle. I went with a team just after the hurricane assisting Keesler AFB to get their communications back on-line. I spent 12 hours on base and whatever I could off base helping the locals.
What was very telling about their situation was when we stopped to help someone clean/repair what was left of their homes, they would thank us and tell us to go help someone else who was worse off then they were. It was an attitude of "I'm OK, but someone else needs help more". It was fantastic! Nobody was whining for government help, they all stepped up to help each other.
One sad note. Of all the beautiful old mansions along US Highway 98, none of them survived. Some of the most wonderful houses all on one road -- gone. And what's going up in their place is a bunch of "pseudo-mansions" that just destroy the whole experience.
Traveler
Is it possible for Mississippi to claim St. Tammany and Washington Parishes? I know it would make both the states look awkward but I really would like to live in a sane state.