Gosh....can you imagine 9000 people fleeing to the Super Dome and it turned out not to be safe at all????
There are so many older homes and poor people in that area who don't have cash on hand or insurance. They must be devasted! It's bad enough to have to evacuate... but to be poor with nowhere to go and no money to get there....is really really sad.
I was talking to Larry earlier this evening. He said the Coast Guard stations there got really bad hit and no ships were coming into those ports for a LONG time. I think it's the 3 or 4 largest shipping port in the US. On top of that....they lost a major oil rig out in the gulf. Billions of dollars down the drain.
It'll take a long time to recover from this one....probably 5 years.
The only person I know from there is SunOfHud/ Josh ...who we used to post with. Is anyone still in contact with him?
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