New Orleans
Am just feeling very sorry for the people of New Orleans. What a terrible loss, so many thousands of people, who have lost their homes, their jobs, their friend and relatives.
No doubt once those that have sought sanctuary in the sports stadia and convention centres have been moved to drier places, the papers will have something else for the front pages.

The levees that kept the city dry have been broken and it will take many months before they are repaired and the city pumped dry. But the city as was has been washed away and what remains will be rotting and need to be leveled. Many of the homes were not insured, the people who lived in them too poor to make the payments, those that had jobs will no longer have jobs as the places they worked will also have been washed away. The poor of New Orleans are like refugees from a foreign war that have arrived with nothing but their tears.

If it is ever rebuilt, will it ever be the same and if the city cannot be built up again can the US rebuild the lives of those people that have lost so much?