RE: Just realized something about New Orleans...

The city of New Orleans is currently being flooded to the level of
Lake Ponchitrain, which is higher than about 80-90% of the city. The
French Quarter is in one of the highest areas of the city (but still
barely above sea level) and will not see flood waters as deep as in
other parts of the city, some of which are now under twenty feet of
water.

The mayor of New Orleans has described the city as in "total
devastation." At this moment water is still flooding the city, and
most of the pumps are out of operation. It seems likely that it will
be many days, if not weeks, before the water will be pumped out of
the city.

Sandy

>DEAR CHRIS,
> Rumors abound in the news about the condition of the French
>Quarter. Some
>say flooded, some say only a few inches of water. Does anyone have specific
>info on how badly it was damaged or flooded?
> My wife and I met the lovely people at A Gallery for Fine
>Photography when
>we went to the New Orleans Jazz fest in, I think, 2003. As a result of my
>posting, someone on this list (was it you) told me to go there.
> CHEERS!
> BOB
>
> Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Lovenguth [mailto:chris@chrisportfolio.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:43 PM
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Just realized something about New Orleans...
>
>Even though it doesn't compare to lives changing (I have 4 very close
>friends who are all safe and out of the city, but don't know if they can
>ever go back), lives lost or maybe soon to be lost and a whole city that
>will change forever, I just realized today that A Gallery is in the French
>Quarter. What a vital (and I would say the most accessible to the pubic)
>collection! It sounds impersonal to worry about something like that, but at
>the same time, what a loss if anything happens to that collection.
>
>What a loss of a cultural and important city. I personally believe New
>Orleans is more important then I think most people know since most Americans
>really only think of drunken times in the tourist sections, but of the many
>many places I have visited in this country, New Orleans really was rare in
>that it had kept so much of it's own identity in times like this. I will
>miss Old New Orleans, it will be rebuilt and good might come from all this,
>but, it will never be the same.
>
>-Chris
Received on Tue Aug 30 17:35:17 2005