New Orleans
It’s amazing that a storm like Katrina, which seemed like an afterthought as weather people wondered if it would even be a hurricane when it hit Florida, could wreak so much damage. As it stands now, people are talking about scenarios like it taking months to pump the water out of New Orleans, colleges like Tulane not reopening until next year, etc. What first appeared to be disaster averted, as the storm edged just east of the New Orleans metro area, only got worse today as levees broke and water poured into the city. Incredible damage. It’s like one of the biggest and most historic cities in the US just got wiped off the map.
I’ve been to New Orleans twice – once on a romantic getaway with Holly before we got married, and once to a LISA conference. It’s hard to imagine, looking at the damage and reading the stories on nola.com, that many of the places we ate and visited are underwater, destroyed, or otherwise uninhabitable. Is the Maison Dupuy still there?
Horrible.
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