On May 21, 2016, at 12:36 AM, Tina Hittenberger <freckle469@comcast.net> wrote:
More than ten years after Katrina, a humid cloud of uncertainty and resignation still hangs over the city, the river and cemeteries.
Formerly densely populated suburbs have gaping, empty lots where home were ripped off their foundations. It looks like a war zone under most of the freeway overpasses.
And then there is the VERY complicated issue of clouded title - transfers often went unrecorded for decades and countless records were destroyed in the flood. Who owns properties that have been abandoned? Who is responsible for maintaining them? And if one WOULD want to purchase one, how is it done? What courage and vision does one need? Maybe just resilience, a tolerance for graft and a willingness to party.
We were told that 4,000 costumed New Orleans residents just celebrated "Sink Hole de Mayo" by throwing a party near a HUGE pothole near the freeway. With music, of course.
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After classes, a thunderstorm began to threaten a leisurely pre-dinner piazza gathering so Chuck and I headed off (code word for "willi... -
His dorm? Or maybe it's a hotel. This is way before the era of The Container Store.
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