An offering to the gods
When we were stuck in that horrendous traffic jam trying to get out of New Orleans for Gustav, T said if this is the sacrifice we have to make for living in New Orleans, then we can bear this. Similarly, a friend said today when he arrived home after fortuitously being out of the country for the whole evacuation event that he had read on nola.com where someone wrote: “this is the price for living in paradise” – sometimes you have to evacuate.
We have everything to lose and that is why we stay here.