OT: Response to Richard Corbett's comments about New Orleans

Richard, I'm not sure quite what you mean by this, but it's a phrase with
biblical connotations, and many people would assume from such a stark remark
that you are suggesting the disaster that has befallen New Orleans and the
area around it is some sort of judgment. If you are making that suggestion
in the belief that it has some biblical or Christian warrant, then you
should be aware that you are wrong; and not only wrong, but offensive. The
kind of crude historicism your (implied) view represents is quite explicitly
rejected in the gospels by Christ himself .. look at Luke 13, for instance,
and the reference to those killed by the tower at Siloam. 'Do you think they
were any worse sinners than ..' No. Any normal human being, Christian or
otherwise, who looks at what has happened to New Orleans feels nothing other
than immense sorrow, and sympathy for those who have lost their loved ones,
their livelihoods, their homes. Shame on you for your remarks.

Harry Smart
Scotland

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Corbett
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:17 PM
Subject: 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 Thu Sep 1 08:12:20 2005