"No one deserves Ray Nagin. Certainly not the people that voted for someone else."
You have a point there. I used to love New Orleans but now I think it's a lost cause. Most people I know who left aren't going back. Those who are get out-voted by the bus-ins.
Unfortunately, I never got a chance to visit. But - and I could be severely mistaken - I thought the French Quarter, downtown, and the nicer neighborhoods were mostly above-ground, and remain standing. Doesn't seem like the 3rd-world-like slums that drowned contributed much to what made the city fun. Or was the rest of the city damaged beyond repair as well?