No one should have been surprised. There were predictions long before this happened. Of course hindsight is 20/20. “If we had only known, we would have built a stronger levee.” Then of course you could always argue that it was the French’s fault for building the city there in the first place. Let’s see. I wonder if we should build a city sandwiched between a river and a lake…AND on land below sea level?
New Orleans will never be the same again. I’m not even sure things will get back to normal before Mardi Gras. If I were a resident of NOLA, I’d pack up and leave and never come back.
Then there’s this for you to ponder.
A coworker asked me how I was dealing with the events in New Orleans. I haven’t been emotionally attached to it. I can watch CNN or MSNBC all day and somehow not get emotionally attached to anything I see. Call it being jaded. I guess things have gotten too complicated in my life for me to “feel” anymore. I wish I could change that. Maybe it will…with time.