Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:35:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: thank you all
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:

> Mike B. wrote:
>
> >  At 07:59 AM 8/31/05 -0700, Drew Bittner wrote:
> >
> [...]
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> >  I don't know the geography there well enough, but
> is there some place
> >  not too far away where they could relocate? It's
> still a major port
> >  for transshipping from the Mississippi to
> oceangoing vessels and that
> >  will be needed somewhere in that area. Perhaps a
> little farther
> >  upstream?
> >
> >  There are reasons New Orleans is located where it
> is, and some of
> >  them still apply...though power craft have
> changed things somewhat in
> >  the last few hundred years.
>
> Agreed.  Reports of New Orleans' death are
> premature.
>
> --Ted White

It was a pessimistic opinion, to be sure. Now, in the
dawn of a brighter and happier day, I believe New
Orleans will come back. It'll take a long time and
lots of struggle, but it's going to be a success story
that everyone there will be proud of.
When Camille hit in 1969, my grandparents rode it out
in their home in Gulfport (the same home my mom now
owns)-- and the destruction was epic. It took the
Coast a decade to recover and even longer to get ahead
of where they'd been in '69. But they made it happen
and they'll do it again.

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