Re: Just realized something about New Orleans...

RE: Just realized something about New Orleans...What you sow, so shall you reap.

Richard

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Sandy King
  To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
  Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:35 AM
  Subject: 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 Wed Aug 31 14:37:56 2005