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Subject: [Leica] Re: Jeffery PAW 19 - nine months post-Katrina
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Tue May 30 06:31:25 2006
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Finally there are cars back in Lakeview. :)

Traffic lights on the neutral ground on Poydras still don't work.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffery Smith"
Subject: [Leica] Jeffery PAW 19 - nine months post-Katrina


> Where has the time gone? Hurricane season starts June 1 and it is May
29th!
> Time to take one step back and look at the progress we've made in the
> once-fashionable Lakeview area (prior home of Sonny Carter and Dennis
> Couvillion). It's hard to believe that a hurricane hit this place just 9
> months ago. You can see the steeple of my church on the distant right. The
> space in the middle is what we call the "neutral ground", here on Canal
> Blvd.
>
> http://www.400tx.com/2006-19.html
>
> When Bill Nelsch visited us last week, he was struck by how normal the
city
> looked. It looks fine as long as you don't leave the French Quarter. And
> even there, Bill found lots of windows boarded up with plywood.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com



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