Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : RR
Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 20:53:17

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Rick Savoia wrote:

> In addition, there's pretty much 80% of a city that is now underwater.
> If they can't fix the levies then the entire city will be underwater.
> That city also rests below sea level so getting the water out will be
> difficult if not impossible.
>
> 30% of the US oil production comes from that area and there is no
> way to access that for the time being.
>
> It will be years before there is complete recovery from this.  So,
> on a country scale, it's pretty big.  New Orleans may be lost
> completely. It's not often that you face the possibility of a whole
> city going away.

It's just crazy. New Orleans has long been my favorite American city. It's
the only city I can spend time in and not feel a sense of displacement or a
nagging desire to return home. While I hope that someday the city will be
built up again, it will not be the same New Orleans that so many knew, and
many more called home. It was one of the few remaining U.S. cities that had
a genuine sense of history, and unfortunately, that seems to now *be* a part
of history.

-- 
RR

"It's been my experience that every
  time I think I know 'where it's at,'
      it's really somewhere else."
      - William Holden - S.O.B.

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