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Issue #31, May, 2007

A Trip Through New Orleans
June, 2006

This house seemed deserted but perhaps the family was attempting to retake their home!

Time goes by very quickly lately.  A good example of that is the fact that these pictures of New Orleans were taken almost a year ago when we went on vacation.  Actually, we had to go to Houston so Nan could finish up her paperwork for her Montessori Teacher’s Certificate, so while we were at it, we decided to continue eastward to Georgia to visit my brother.  New Orleans was on the way, so we stopped to see if there were any improvements since the hurricane the previous year.

Although things were getting back to near normal, there were still hundreds of homes and businesses still un-repaired, and the city much less populated since the devastating event.  We were able to stay at a nice down town hotel, but we were one of the few tourists at the time.  The French Quarter was building back it’s business, but slowly. 

The French Quarter was one of the first places back on its feet.

Tourism was slowly returning when we visited.

We hear that there are a lot more businesses open again, and more old city dwellers back to start over.  However, there still remains a lot of the scenes we observed and no way for many of the native folks to return.  Some how this doesn’t seem right, but we did see many hard working people attempting to put their lives back together – hope they succeeded.

Living in a trailer while working on the place; abandoning forever; or trying to get out with something to
start over with.  Such was the condition of New Orleans residents last year, and still today.

Let this be a lesson to the rest of us in this country:  If disaster strikes your home, be prepared the best you can because we have learned that our federal government may not be up for the task of helping.  It seems our government has other priorities, and is using our tax money for other “projects”.  Please consider who you send to Washington, D.C. next time you get around to voting.  You never know when Mother Nature will deal you a swift kick in the pants for not paying attention to her many moods. 

Bowed but not broken.