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Originally Posted by Benzadmiral
Stupidity. ("It's not the heat, it's the stupidity" -- seen on T-shirts everywhere)
Actually, it's because the entire remaining 20% (and oh, how I wish it were that small a number!) are crammed into 10% of the pre-Katrina area. I drove through Gentilly, the devastated area on the east side of City Park, on Sunday morning. Yes, it was Easter, but on a normal Easter morning there'd have been loads of cars around all the churches. Instead I saw acres of debris and only half the trees that used to line the better boulevards, and heard crickets chirping. No traffic jam there . . . because there were very very few people.
On the West Bank, where I live, and in the unincorporated parts of Jeff Parish, traffic has only gotten worse.
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I drove through the Midcity area on Thursday. That's where I spent about 3 days doing S&R. Talked to a couple of guys, brothers, who were doing the carpentry work on their family home, a typical shotgun down near Florida Ave off Elysian Fields. They were upbeat and friendly on a hot, dusty little nothing street. They said it was real quiet at night, they stayed at night to guard their materials and tools. Said the few folks who were around there were all busy working on returning and were like them, working on family homes. They said they thought most of the thugs had stayed in Houston. Then they laughed like the thugs had been tricked!
All-in-all, I left with a belief that there are some pretty good people returning and a lot of riff-raff are not.
How do you see it?
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