Good News for Lakeview

Nearly four years post Katrina, Lakeview is getting its postoffice back.


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The Lakeview neighborhood, devastated by Katrina flooding, has made steady progress in rebuilding its housing stock and residential population; based on house-to-house surveys it's estimated that more than 16,000 people now live in the area. There were about 22,000 Lakeview residents before the 2005 storm.

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Knowing Stuff

Lord David over at HumidCity dot com pens a great post about the absent mindedness of the Nagin Administration and the hopeful outcome.


You’ve almost completely destroyed our city, hopes and rebuilding efforts to further your own greed. You’ve made backroom deals with all your friends and given away the farm for your own profit. You’ve blamed the Times-picayune, WWL-TV, Lee Zurik and Stacey Head. You’ve hurled the name ‘RACIST’ at anyone who stood up to your criminal bullying.


read it in its entirety here.

Shot of the Week

While attending the Picayune Street Fair this morning, hubby and I spotted this lady who is probably my age (54).



A truely "What Not to Wear" Moment

Let's compare disasters, shall we?

First Draft takes the opportunity to answer those pathetic hateful souls who
take every advantage to beat down the the people of New Orleans with their closed- minded comments.

Here's a snippet


Is 80% of Fargo under water at present? Is it flooded to the rooftops? That was the case for much of NOLA and well you can't do much BUT go to the rooftop and hope help comes.

Did 90% of Fargo evacuate? Because 90% of So LA did so. It was the largest and most successful evacuation in US history. Over 1 million people evacuated...most in just 24-48 hours. My God the whole population of the state of North Dakota (640,000) would have to evacuate TWICE to make that argument meaningful.



Thanks, Scout!

Are you listening, Governor?

How is Bobby Jindal going to convince people in Michigan, California, Pennsylvania, Florida, and all those other struggling states to vote for the man that chose not to accept money design to help struggling working people in his state even though their tax dollars were paying for it regardless? I don’t think many people want that guy in a time of crisis like this.


Read the rest at Cliff's blog here

Sad Anniversary

It was a year ago today that NOLA Blogger Ashley Morris passed away, leaving a huge hole in the hearts of many.

He left behind a beautiful young wife and three small children.

I never met him personally, but Ashley touched everyone who read his blog or emailed him in a big way. He had a love for life and New Orleans and he'll never be forgotten.


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It's Still There

Tim, over at the Nameless Blog, reflects on the post Katrina condition that sometimes grabs us by the heart when we discuss our experiences:

I can feel tears in my eyes and a crack beginning to develop in my own voice that tells me something I did not know. I did not know I am still sad about this. I am still sad that the life we once knew is gone. Dead and gone and buried in the dirt and silt of a flooded house, and a mud-caked neighborhood.

Read the full post, "A Crack in My Voice" here .

Scuzzbucket

Neel Borsch



from it's website:


We've all be watching the drama from Fargo, North Dakota. Floods are bad enough, but when you have to deal with those floods in -11 degree temperatures I would imagine it is almost unbearable.

OK .. now for the insensitive thought. Let's keep some score. Let's see how well the residents of Fargo handle this disaster vs. the residents of New Orleans. The parasite quotient in New Orleans gives a huge lead to the denizens of the frozen north. I'm guessing that three and one-half years from now you will not see many Fargo residents living in motels as guests of the taxpayers.

Just go on and stir that pot, Neel. And your commenters, my what a bunch of frozen tundra boors. Maybe that's why they relate to Borsch.

some excerpts


We were flooded much worse than New Orleans and we helped one another out and life went on. It is funny how that works.

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Now, I'm no defender of NO, no way. I was a responder and they sickened me and I got to the point that I wished they'd all just drown already and be rid of them BUT there is a world of difference in their ability to prepare in these places.

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Has anyone taken a head count of volunteers from New Orleans going up to help out with the sandbagging operation?
I haven't heard of any busloads of Katrina "victims" going north to return the favor.



From First Draft, a great comment

Boortz is a Cat5 hurricane on the Homer-Simpson scale of storm stupidity.

What it was like

Hurricane coverage took over local TV completely. I watched the aerial footage of jammed Interstate Highways, lines of vehicles barely moving, the procession extending as far as the cameras could see. The affluent and upscale people were finding their exodus out of harms way a trek and ordeal. One family, very yuppie, a couple with two children, two small yappy dogs and a late model SUV were bemoaning their personal misery as it took them over 9 hours to reach Baton Rouge, only to find every motel and hotel locked solid or commandeered by emergency personnel. In retrospect I am more inclined to laugh at their plight and feel little sympathy for them. Considering all that followed, they didn’t know what suffering was.

In my third floor ‘ye olde urban slum’ apartment at the rundown ‘Rebel Arms’, at 1005 Decatur, I did what I could to prepare myself and my neighbors. We could not buy those ‘emergency supplies’ newspeople urge people to get in such situations. The local Wallgreens and small grocery stores that are in the French Quarter all considerately ‘closed for the duration’ 24 hours before the storm arrived.........

for the whole story, go here