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Originally Posted by louielouie2000
The city is still in such a state of disarray it's alarming and highly sobering. So many roads are still impassable. Even outside the highly publicized 9th Ward, there are enormous areas which have been razed and left for dead. Nice, middle class suburban sections. Mansions in high end established areas which are damaged, boarded up, whose yards have gone to seed. Countless numbers of homes left abandoned, with the water line and number of dead still visible on the exterior walls. You have to leave the touristy parts of New Orleans and drive north towards Lake Pontchartrain to see it, but once you do, you realize how staggering the scale of the destruction still is. I can't even imagine how bad it looked the first year or two after the storm.
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This isn't directed at you Louie, but down South we get a little tired of only hearing
about New Orleans. If I didn't live down here I'd think that New Orleans was the only
place hit by the hurricane. Mississippi and South Alabama were hurt too. Pull up
Biloxi Mississippi on Google Maps and you can still see the devastation.
I can still see the destruction of the previous hurricane by just looking out my
window. Our farm had serious damage and we are still recovering from that storm.
Thank the Lord our homes were spared.