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Subject: [Leica] Hurricane Rita Postscript
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Tue Nov 1 11:53:12 2005

Sonny,
Thanks for this eye witness report.
Philippe


> From: "SonC@aol.com" <SonC@aol.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:19:50 EST
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Hurricane Rita Postscript
> 
> Hurricane Rita blew into the gulf coast and  scared lots of people.  I'm 
> not
> too easily scared by storms, as I covered  several of the back in my
> folly-ridden youth when I thought I was invincible,  and shot newsfilm for 
> TV.
> But I 
> am older now, approaching codger-ship and  after seeing what Katrina did 
> to my
> former home of New Orleans, I began to  worry.
> 
> The set of pictures in this little essay do not show  a big disaster, and 
> as
> you will see, I did not travel any during the storm, but  I hope you get 
> some
> sense of what it can be like.
> 
> Remember, these  storms have not gone away for thousands of people,  and in
> Louisiana, no  matter what anyone says, we're paying a price for Rita and
> Katrina that no  amount of aid can fix.
> 
> http://www.sonc.com/rita_came/
> 
> 
> Regards,  
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> Oldest continuous  settlement in La Louisiane
> ?galit?, libert?, crawfish
> 
> 
> 
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