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To: E. Graphs who wrote (19092)6/26/1999 5:43:00 PM
From: Beachbumm  Read Replies (1) of 25814
 
E, your post is great and reminds me of my great uncle telling me what it was like in New Orleans in the "good old days". Some samples:

The streets were "paved" with wood planks over the dirt. In a heavy rain, they literally floated away.

Drinking water came from rain collected in a cistern at each house. Bugs and worms lived in the bottom of the cistern. My uncle said that if you lived to be five or six you knew you were going to make it.

In winter the homes were heated by coal grates. He said that on a cold day the sky would be black with soot, along with your clothes and the rest of you if you went out. So much for today's smog!

And best of all, before the weather channel was in vogue, he recalled going to school one day in September 1912. The weather turned cloudy then stormy then got so bad that everyone was sent home because they finally figured out it was a hurricane -- as it turned out, one of the worst to strike in New Orleans's history.

I think I'll take life with microchips instead.

Beachbumm
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