Outside New Orleans, Katrina victims feel forgotten

Reuters ^ | Friday 20 January 2006 | Ellen Wulfhorst

[kipita]

And the litmus test for any local (New Orleans) fishermen is to ask "where do you catch specks during the winter?"

The answer would be the world (with all its names and secret locations) known as Delacroix (Hopedale and Shell Beach if you don't have a boat).

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

The media would never have paid so much attention to New Orleans if it hadn't been for the total lack of common sense leadership (Nagin and Blanco). Their actions increased the drama level in NO exponetially. The rest of the coastal residents were decimated much worse by the storm, but, alas, theirs' was an ordinary "storm stikes coast" story. The "chocolate" story made for better press.

[CajunConservative]

It's also a major historical city.

[sam_paine]

Read. Comprehend. Then Post. Try it.

You're barking up the wrong tree, fool. WTF are "tea cozies" anyway? What are you talking about?

Read #18.

[pepperdog]

I've never heard of anyone getting it. The only people I knew in the hurricane didn't get anything except frustrated, they went back to NO and are doing things themselves. Here in OK with the devastation caused by the wildfires the one person I know of who actually asked FEMA for some help was denied because she had insurance, albeit too little. All she wanted was to use one of the thousands of unoccupied FEMA trailers to live in while she rebuilt, but no help for her.

[TexasCajun]

you'll see the entire town is easily rebuilt with about $38.72 worth of materials.

Sam? ...maybe back in Hemmingway's time.

Venice is sport-fishing paradise, but more importantly it is a major service hub for the entire Gulf of Mexico oil and gas industry.

Industry, not government will rebuild Venice.

[sam_paine]

Damn! My hyperbole gets me in trouble agin! I didn't really mean the town could actually be rebuilt for $38.72!

Venice is sport-fishing paradise

YES!

Industry, not government will rebuild Venice.

GREAT!

But I still think the value of the town is in the fine fishing boats, (or the oil-service as you mention)...not in the floating OSB campgrounds of the marina.

All I was trying to point out at the beginning of the thread to EagleUSA is that Venice is Waaaaaay out on a limb and has no protection of anything like NOLA did (could have had.)