Good News from Metro New Orleans
In the spirit of Chrenkoff's postings on Iraq and Afghanistan, and in defiance of the media's over-reporting and exaggerating of the bad news - as if it is not bad enough on its own - here is some good news coming out of the New Orleans metro area:
The French Quarter community is bouncing back - New Orleans still has some civilized residents left.
Evacuees without prescription coverage are being given free medication.
New Orleans gets 57,000 troops, order is restored to most of the city.
The Army will begin to breach levees in order to drain Chalmette.
No link, but compiled from personal reports and various message boards that have been created because of the hurricane - Electricity is available in quite a few areas of Jefferson Parish, which in spite of predictions did not suffer the level of flooding that residents were told to expect. Because Jefferson is being restored so rapidly, more help will be available to Orleans as the flood waters recede. Outlying parishes to the west have little or no damage and few outages.
The essential character of New Orleans residents has not changed. Fun and food are still basic priorities. "I hear the fishing is good at the intersection of Napoleon Ave and S.Claiborne Ave. Plenty of Redfish and specks. Here's the latest tide info. High tide 7 am, low 9 pm. Range 1 ft."
I hope to be home next week or the week after and reporting on this in person.
Posted by Laura Curtis at September 5, 2005 09:43 AM
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