It’s worse than I thought down there
Loca and I walked through City Park this morning and again I was impressed by how beautiful the park looks two years after the storm. This afternoon, I was speaking to a colleague who said he watched a documentary last night on Katrina and he was impressed by how horrific the devastation was down here – saying he can’t believe how many homes (50,000) were destroyed – I had to correct him and tell him that would be 200,000 homes destroyed. He said 800,000 people lost their homes – again I said the population was only under 500,000 pre-K. Nevertheless, I agreed with him that no one can understand the destruction that occurred here or the lasting effects of it on entire communities not to mention the city as a whole. But all in all we are making headway it appears. It’s two years hence and we are forging new ground with our school system and refurbishing dusty corners of other areas as well.
Pretty soon we’re about to elect a whole new set of politicians down here as the ones we have either suck or steal. You know the drill. We need a hero(s).