New Orleans - understanding the devastation

When a disaster is no longer front-page news, that doesn’t mean it’s over. A week or so back I had a pleasant dinner with Buzz Bruggeman in Orlando. Recently he visited his friend, Ernie the Attorney, in New Orleans…

Ernie The Attorney: New Orleans - it's hard to understand the devastation.

Ernie The Attorney: New Orleans - it's hard to understand the devastation

I [Ernie] drove him [Buzz] out to Lakeview, and as soon as we encountered the first sign of major flooding the wind came out of his sails.

"Holy shit," he starting muttering.  "Holy fucking shit.  This is bad."

“When you live in another city it's easy to think you understand what it's like here.  I completely understand, and I'm guilty of the same tendency.  We've all somehow come to believe that our high-tech communication tools (TV video, Satellite imagery, weblogs) can give us a fine-tooth sense of how things are in remote places.  But, you know what?  They can't.”