It's been a whole year since this tragic event, a year sure flys by fast, but I wonder if it had moved too fast. From what I've heard, things still not have improved much so far. The casinos are going to be up and running starting tomorrow, which is good in a way because New Orleans residents get their jobs back to get their life back to normal again. I wonder though, what about the homes? I know that some are being rebuilt, but is it enough? I also wonder if New Orleans will ever be the same again. I pray for the victims that they will carry on with their lives.
Five years ago, I was very fortunate to have visited New Orleans. The trip was for a National Youth Gathering for Lutheran church youth groups across the United States. It was a week long event, but my youth group was there for nine days. We arrived two days earlier than the other youth groups, so we had the chance to explore certain places like Bourbon Street (we only walked down the street and went inside no places there) It was a wonderful trip and I had always wanted to go back. Now I am really hopeful that all the things that makes New Orleans what it is, will be restored. It is more than just Bourbon Street, it is about the culture, the historic scenes, the numerous ghost stories, the music, the people, and more!
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Hi, it is odd that you post this, I watched the Katrina special on NBC this evening, and it was highly emotional. Seeing those people in such despair, I cried on and off watching. So hard to watch. I pray for all, that they conquered the tragedy. And I hope that all is well with you...................
Hello!
I wanted to stop in and personally thank you for your lovely comment on my beloved Jack:) I don't think I have been to your blog before, but found it quite interesting already. I hope to catch it all soon! I too don't know if New Orleans will ever be the same, I keep seeing it everywhere. Most times I don't recognize it on the news until they say something. It's so said, I watched a documentary on MTV. About individuals trying to get help from FEMA, it is terrible how they cannot be helped:(
Oh I think my post is way too long..sorry:(
Take Care!
Tausha
Hi Metalchick,
One year later and not enough has been done. My father-in-law was born in NO, and loves the city. He visited a few months ago and said there was much left to do.
-AM
Dear Chick
It was such a beautiful city - what devastation. Not only to the architecture, but to the humanity, as well.
The power of Nature cannot be ignored.
A lovely tribute.
Thanks!
Dale
It's seems to have gone by so fast and it still shocks me how long it is taking for NO to be rebuilt fully. I don't think it will be forgotten in a hurry.
xxmaryxx
I can't imagine ever forgetting some of the horrors that have happened since we enter the 00's. My hometown was just about destroyed by the hurricane that followed Katrina. Scary stuff. ...and so very sad.
Dear Metalchick
I have a copy of National Geographic (a fluke) dated October 2004.
The extensive article details (and predicted) the reasons why such disaster would occur.
Manmade changes to the area to accommodate pipelines and the further filling of an enormous swampland that has become the “lost area” to Katrina, would be well advised, to leave good enough alone since this was a larger repetition of an earlier devastating flood some decades back.
I am very sorry to share with you this grim prognosis, as it would be unconscionable to rebuild anywhere other than on natural high ground.
Love to you and al all those that have and still suffering the consequences of ill planning.
-.a.-
Hey Metalchick...just checking back to see how your church hunt is going or if it is going...did you get to check out Mosaic?
Hope you are doing well.
Lionel
Thanks for the reminder, Chick...lest we forget! It was both a human and a cultural tragedy.
All the low lying coastal regions are doomed from rising sea levels and ever more violent storms. At a certain point there will be no way to rebuild. The cost will just exceed our ability to pay for it. Maybe we're already there.
This has been the number one item on the Brits news. It seems to me that virtually nothing has been done.
We also saw an alarming documentary of how the prisoners had been abandonned in their cells as the water rose to neck level.
From over here in the safe greenery of Sherwood Forest it's hard to see how New Orleans could ever be the same again.
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