Da Nile is a river, but it ain't in New Orleans. Speaking as one who knows and loves the Crescent City, N.O. had far more than its share of thugs and deadbeats, to say nothing of ignorance, corruption, nepotism and fatalism. My one big regret about the whole present mess in Louisiana is that Bobby Jindal wasn't Governor when Katrina hit. It would still have been a disaster, of course, but out of the disaster arose great opportunity which Nagin and Blanco, in true Louisiana fashion, didn't even see. Bobby would have done much better, I think.
Yes,it could get crazy down there.I used to teach in the Ninth Ward so I have seen and heard it all.Had to deal with my share of crazies of all colors.Was there to witness the Mark Essex Howard Johnson shootout in 1973.
Yet I miss the damn place after all these years in Califonia.