Wondering about Drince88

[Ghoulish Delight]

Ugh, this is making me horribly depressed that I never got to visit NOLA as it was. It's gone forever now.

This kind of thing hasn't happened in a long long time, a city disappearing due to disaster. Seattle and Chicago were devestated by fire and rebuilt from the ground up. Life returns eventually, but it's a slow and difficult process. And so hard to absorb that it's a city like New Orleans that's been around for so long.

[lizziebith]

Bee and I were just lamenting skipping over visiting NO on our X-country trip this past February. We were just going to fly back out there "later." We actually got out our trip maps to see where we'd made that decision after seeing the I-10 pictures...

Man. We took the 10 across the country and didn't stop in the Big Easy. Feeling dumb now.

But, tourism concerns aside, I cannot fathom this loss. It's weird... a major city is pretty much gone. It's like 9/11 again, but we can't blame some political/cultural group.

And I had to tell my son what "looting" meant. Another piece of his innocence gone. Still, when these things happen, civilization does go out the window. I can't blame the poor souls who just see opportunity and go for it...I don't think they are thinking right. I sure wouldn't be...