Ray and I were thinking yesterday how sad it is that we'll never be able to see New Orleans as millions of other people had seen it. It quite certainly will never be the same city as it was until two weeks ago, and that is a pity. We never saw it and never will, at least not "the" New Orleans.
So many things are being said right now. Randy Rhodes, on AirAmerica opined that the people who lost their homes to Katrina's devastation, will never see them rebuilt, because the whole area will fall prey to the mires of big developers who will build high rises and apartment buildings to maximize their gains. Shopping malls, garages, offices will probably spring up everywhere.
Dennis Hastert, the Republican Speaker of the House, even went so far as to say that maybe we shouldn't even bother rebuilding New Orleans, since it was the site of a likely catastrophe (which this administration wasn't able to prepare for,) and it might be of another one in the future.
Now, I hope both scenarios are wrong. I'd love to see New Orleans in the future, even if it will be drastically different from the old one. I'd like to think that a lot of the former residents will go back and will bring back whatever it was that made that town so charming. I'd like to see the "Big Easy," even if a newer one. Let's just hope this time big money or politics don't have their way, at least not completely.
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