[cgk]

Sheesh. She wants to rebuild now, but we're hearing that it will take 6-9 MONTHS to drain the city, and 3 more MONTHS to dry out and decontaminate it from who knows how many diseases. And it's September now, and in that NINE MONTHS - it isn't going to rain one lick, let alone another storm?

I'm thinking they're frantic because what happens to their colleagues there? They are rallying around the "rebuild" call, when we're all looking at what seems to be some terrible current-times Atlantis.

What happens to the elected congressmen who no longer have districts? No more New Orleans means how many less Dems and Reps in Congress?

Question: If you could buy a family home for $1.00 in New Orleans would you? Knowing what you know now, and almost positively guaranteeing that no insurance company on the planet would insure you for ANYTHING? Lightning may not strike twice, but hurricanes obviously do.

I'm wondering if my 3 yr old is going to grow up reading about "New Orleans: the City that was." I hope not, but I am not optimistic. You can't build a levee or a dam strong enough to hold back the ocean. I am very sad for New Orleans' residents and all that they have lost, and may never have again.

[Types_with_Fist]

I actually heard some anchorette on TV asking if the "cleanup at the Super Dome had begun." They just don't understand the scope of the disaster... portraying NO even as "getting back to normal."

[LA Woman3]

New Orleans has dodged the bullet so many times, that people didn't take this storm as seriously as they should-officials included. The common phrase you hear over and over is "It will turn". This time their luck ran out.
They are warning people how awful the city will look once the water has been drained. I don't think anyone knows what will become of New Orleans as this is such a unprecedented,tragic event. I never imagined when we moved here 4 years ago that we would be here for the "Big One".