Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:59:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] thank you all
To: Washington SF Association <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Thanks to everyone who's expressed concern for and
sympathy about my mom in Gulfport.
As Mike pointed out earlier, it'll be a very long time
(measured in weeks, hopefully, not months) before some
of the basic infrastructure is together enough to get
word out. My brother intends to head for Mississippi
tomorrow if we don't have word by then, but I don't
know how far he'll get; I'm assuming the National
Guard has the ingresses blocked off.
New Orleans will never be the same, even if they do
rebuild. Portions of the city may have to be declared
uninhabitable for many years to come, while others
will be redlined and uninsurable for flood or other
disasters. In any event, we may be seeing the death of
a major city playing out in real time.

Drew

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