IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT

MARDI GRAS WILL return, perhaps in a lighter form, but the city of New Orleans remains dark.  A city of many colors may return more white. The power company is in the red, bankrupt.  Tons of trash still stink in daylight.  Residents of New Orleans feel trashed and left in the dark.

Nighttime tells the truth. Nighttime tells that the city is not whole. Then, the great expanse of the city's center and much of its lanky eastern edge lie dark and silent and creepy. Block after block of homes, mile after mile, rot in pitch-blackness.

THE CRESCENT CITY may have gone around the bend and not come back.
MORE TO FOLLOW

Comments

[Diane]

Things aren't going too well across the lake. It is relatively easy to sympathize with Nagin, but hard to trust him. (I am not big on Democrats, but I am really not big on Republicans who disguise themselves as Democrats--or for the fools who vote for them.)

There is a lot of looting going on in those empty neighborhoods that have anything left to loot. There is still a huge power blackout, too, over 60% of the city. Construction workers have nowhere to live. There are hardly any schools open, which--in Orleans Parish--may not be such a terrible thing.