Mardi Gras is canceled, so residents are making their homes into floats: ‘New Orleans doesn’t know how to do anything halfway’

washingtonpost ^ | 02/15/2021 | Cathy Free

[ChicagoConservative27]

Megan Boudreaux was feeling down three months ago after she learned that New Orleans wasn’t going to issue Mardi Gras parade permits for 2021 because of the pandemic.

The annual holiday wouldn’t be the same, she said, without the elaborate floats made months in advance of Fat Tuesday’s 50-plus parades.

“I decided, ‘Well, okay then, I’m going to decorate my house instead, pull some beads out of the attic and throw them at the neighbors,” said Boudreaux, 38, who works as an insurance agent in New Orleans.

[ChicagoConservative27]

When are they going to stop canceling every event because of the covid boogieman??? This needs to stop.

[Feckless]

‘New Orleans doesn’t know how to do anything halfway’

Except prepare for and react to hurricanes.

[Bayard]

They don’t care if they die from hurricanes there but you tell them Covid is happening and they cancel everything.

[cnsmom]

Gorilla Glue Girl could be the LA House Celebrity this year

[napscoordinator]

I believe everything will happen in 2022. That’s the year things will be back to normal.

[JonPreston]

Who cares? No normal person would participate in Mardi Gras.

[Vaquero]

The land beneath the sea ( level).

[tired&retired]

I was there when they had a big sink hole in canal street, down by the casino.

Never to let an opportunity to party go by, they had a big “Sink Hole de Mayo” party.

The party grew so big they had to move it from the hole so no one got hurt.

[antidemoncrat]

So the richest man in the world who owns the Washington Post wants me to pay a dollar to read one of its articles that was put online....my answer....FO FO FO

[Yo-Yo]

Does that mean you have to go door-to-door like a Trick-or-Treater to get beads?

[lepton]

‘New Orleans doesn’t know how to do anything halfway’

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Build levees?

Spend money actually on a project?

[Romulus]

Another Mardi Gras expert weighs in.

[JonPreston]

Another Mardi Gras expert weighs in

[gathersnomoss]

Dad must be very proud....

[mewzilla]

I imagine a lot of people whose jobs and incomes depend on Mardi Gras give a hoot.

[JonPreston]

Debauchery needs handmaidens.

[Albion Wilde]

Cute pix at the link!

[Libloather]

Covid beads? I’m out.

[Romulus]

So what? For every picture like that, there are thousands of normal families having an innocent good time.