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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (108262)	9/9/2005 12:50:34 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

It's really too bad you banned this person from the thread. Member 447098 Her father lived in New Orleans. She got him a room Sunday at the Holiday Inn Express near the French Quarter. Tuesday, they turned him out, and he ended up at the Superdome. Was there until Saturday. What an incredible story. Message 21670140 Message 21678921 Message 21681900 (there are other posts)

To: Grainne who wrote (108262)	9/9/2005 12:52:07 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

There are a lot of wealthy, notable and famous people who call New Orleans home. I wasn't aware that Harry Connick Jr. had left, though. Where did he go, anyway? The weather is really miserable there. I think that weighs heavily on many people, especially people getting older. But there has been a stable upper class in New Orleans since it began as a city. There really isn't much close contact between the social classes in most of America, and I would be surprised if New Orleans was an exception. My understanding is that it is a stratified place. I cannot imagine people leaving because there are a lot of blacks there, since that has always been true. It didn't just happen overnight. A lot of young people want to live in New Orleans. I was watching interviews with flood victims in the French Quarter, and some of them had come from other places to start businesses there. It was probably an overreaction on my part. It seemed like so many people were speaking fondly about the place but no longer lived there. Usually, if you like a place, you stay there.