Posted on 11/20/2005 2:40:37 PM PST by caryatid
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Recovery is just a word when you see an image like this.
Leave the lights out.
New Orleans, the city that partied like there was no tomorrow...then found out that for them, there wasn't.
Never reinforce failure. Or rebuild in a floodplain. Especially with a corrupt local government.
* Louisiana PING *
it sort of gives a new meaning to being from the wrong side of the tracks.
There has been a large group here whose company moved them all to East Tennessee from their flooded offices. They're going home Wednesday.
Well that is right across from where a levee broke. What does the French Quarert, the CBD, Uptown, Algers etc. look like at night? I bet far different.
NO has been too slow to get going again in my view, but that picture is misleading.
It's nice if you've got a telescope.
Never reinforce failure. Or rebuild in a floodplain. Especially with a corrupt local government.
----Agree
What will "no noggin" nagin do now?
I hope you are correct that the picture is misleading; however, even uptown, there are still areas that remain without power.
> It's nice if you've got a telescope.
It just about knocks you out when you've been in the city too long to see the night sky's magnificent display.
I am not sure what you mean by areas. After a hurricane, if the line from your house to the pole is down you wait a long time to get service back unless you pay to have that fixed by someone not working for the power company. So of course there are pockets with no power uptown.
I have not driven over there but what I understand to be the case is that New Orleans East and the 9th ward are in terrible shape. I would guess similarly the area near the break in the 17th street canal levee is pretty bad. Also near that picture is City park which would not have tons of light anyway and would not be a priority to get back up after a storm.
Still I agree that city officials have dragged their feet. Getting the entire city its power back should have been the state's number 1 priority.
Floodplain? How about 10 feet below sea level.
from:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1132832,00.html
"Neighborhoods are still dark, garbage piles up on the street, and bodies are still being found. The city's pain is a nation's shame"
-not the nation's shame just the mayor's.
N.O.'s voters should remember this when reelection day comes.
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