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New Orleans Lost and Found
Sep. 1st, 2005 03:16 pmThis is the first article I have read that has given me some kind of hope since this hell started. I don't know - just being reminded of all the other times New Orleans has burned, flooded, been buried in disease and still came back in some form or other is kind of uplifting in a really sick way.
Of course that does nothing to help the people suffering there now. It does nothing to prevent the complete economic collapse of the city and it does nothing to assure that if the city does come back - it won't be a Disneyfication of the French Quarter. Part of me refuses to believe that would ever be allowed to happen and part of me is scoffing at me and part of me is just devastated and wants to sleep for a hundred years.
And then I check this out and okay - it looks like large portions of Uptown are dry and Algiers has water and gas and actualy - what kind of condition is the Westbank in anyway? No one is saying on TV and all I keep hearing is that Jefferson Parish is flooded but the only mention I've seen beyond that is that the Galleria's windows all blew out and they showed a gas station on tv and it was dry. So what parts of Metairie flooded? Fat City?
But if Algiers is dry - is it still there? Seriously - is anything there? And if they have water - could you get people across the river in temporary mobilization thingies.... I just - water! I mean the people stranded at the convention center are *just* across the river from Algiers.
What about wind damage? What about rescue efforts in those parts of the city? New Orleans is sooo much more than Canal Street, the Central Business District and the French Quarter - I keep seeing the Ninth Ward and I understand the Marigny is underwater (maybe?) but what about the City Park area?
Has anyone heard about Midcity - I'm really afraid to do an intensive search cause I heard there was a lot of flooding and I - but okay - I need to know Midcity, Canal at Jeff Davies. I should google.
I'm kind of astounded by the fact that this is going on and the Earth is still spinning and yesterday the most emailed article at the New York Times was that there might be an iPod cell phone soon. I think maybe that it just hasn't really sunken in exactly what has happened the full extent of this horror. Because this will be felt everywhere, don't doubt that.
Of course that does nothing to help the people suffering there now. It does nothing to prevent the complete economic collapse of the city and it does nothing to assure that if the city does come back - it won't be a Disneyfication of the French Quarter. Part of me refuses to believe that would ever be allowed to happen and part of me is scoffing at me and part of me is just devastated and wants to sleep for a hundred years.
And then I check this out and okay - it looks like large portions of Uptown are dry and Algiers has water and gas and actualy - what kind of condition is the Westbank in anyway? No one is saying on TV and all I keep hearing is that Jefferson Parish is flooded but the only mention I've seen beyond that is that the Galleria's windows all blew out and they showed a gas station on tv and it was dry. So what parts of Metairie flooded? Fat City?
But if Algiers is dry - is it still there? Seriously - is anything there? And if they have water - could you get people across the river in temporary mobilization thingies.... I just - water! I mean the people stranded at the convention center are *just* across the river from Algiers.
What about wind damage? What about rescue efforts in those parts of the city? New Orleans is sooo much more than Canal Street, the Central Business District and the French Quarter - I keep seeing the Ninth Ward and I understand the Marigny is underwater (maybe?) but what about the City Park area?
Has anyone heard about Midcity - I'm really afraid to do an intensive search cause I heard there was a lot of flooding and I - but okay - I need to know Midcity, Canal at Jeff Davies. I should google.
I'm kind of astounded by the fact that this is going on and the Earth is still spinning and yesterday the most emailed article at the New York Times was that there might be an iPod cell phone soon. I think maybe that it just hasn't really sunken in exactly what has happened the full extent of this horror. Because this will be felt everywhere, don't doubt that.
