Huge News From New Orleans
I'm sorry, what did you say? Viability? Studies? Commissions? I don't need all that. You want proof that my neighborhood is coming back? I'll give you proof. Go to the corner of Canal and Galvez, this is in Louisville mind you, and the corner store (with gas pumps) you will find there, which has been open for three weeks, just added a new sign on the front plate glass--open 24 hours.
In all the devastated zones of New Orleans, this is the first 24 hour establishment. That's right, baby. Beer, wine, and liquor, and you know, food, snacks, toothbrushes and detergent and stuff, 24/7, in Louisville. You want viabliity, I got your viability, right here.
I heard two stories on the radio today about NO:
the first story summarized the federal commission's report (not final yet) regarding the failure of the government at all levels to adequately respond to K - they evidently list 90+ key mistakes made by the head of homeland security, the head of fema, the governor, the mayor, etc......
the second story addressed the 200+ bodies that remain unclaimed and/or unidentified since K and are being stored in large regrigerated trucks south of baton rouge. the NO director of the health department talked about the need to have a mausoleum - and not discrete burials in wooden caskets - so that the bodies could have rest and yet still be reclaimed by family down the road. And so NO could begin recovery.
Oh - there was a third story - about the stoplights and how many months and how much money it was going to take to get all the stoplights working again...
but it's obvious recovery is already beginning - perhaps not according to the linear time tables of government, but according to the decentralized will of people who are new orleans - the rhizome of recovery - nonlinear, with deep roots and many exits and entrances. hurray for the 24/7. a blossom.
favorite line in the recent past: "your children will be eaten." why didn't we think of that earlier?
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I'm sorry, what did you say? Viability? Studies? Commissions? I don't need all that. You want proof that my neighborhood is coming back? I'll give you proof. Go to the corner of Canal and Galvez, this is in Louisville mind you, and the corner store (with gas pumps) you will find there, which has been open for three weeks, just added a new sign on the front plate glass--open 24 hours.
In all the devastated zones of New Orleans, this is the first 24 hour establishment. That's right, baby. Beer, wine, and liquor, and you know, food, snacks, toothbrushes and detergent and stuff, 24/7, in Louisville. You want viabliity, I got your viability, right here.
- jimlouis 2-12-2006 5:50 pm
I heard two stories on the radio today about NO:
the first story summarized the federal commission's report (not final yet) regarding the failure of the government at all levels to adequately respond to K - they evidently list 90+ key mistakes made by the head of homeland security, the head of fema, the governor, the mayor, etc......
the second story addressed the 200+ bodies that remain unclaimed and/or unidentified since K and are being stored in large regrigerated trucks south of baton rouge. the NO director of the health department talked about the need to have a mausoleum - and not discrete burials in wooden caskets - so that the bodies could have rest and yet still be reclaimed by family down the road. And so NO could begin recovery.
Oh - there was a third story - about the stoplights and how many months and how much money it was going to take to get all the stoplights working again...
but it's obvious recovery is already beginning - perhaps not according to the linear time tables of government, but according to the decentralized will of people who are new orleans - the rhizome of recovery - nonlinear, with deep roots and many exits and entrances. hurray for the 24/7. a blossom.
- anonymous (guest) 2-14-2006 5:29 am [add a comment]
favorite line in the recent past: "your children will be eaten." why didn't we think of that earlier?
- m (guest) 2-15-2006 8:32 am [add a comment]