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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (1666)	12/10/2005 5:12:39 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2253

When they make the definitive movie about New Orleans post-Katrina, they could name it "Gone With The Wind Part II". An entire way of life is gone and I don't think it's coming back. I don't see how. The bonds of trust in the social compact are broken irrevocably. At least, that's the way it seems to me from the outside, for the people who suffered incomprehensible callousness, and everybody whose lives and property were ruined by colossal incompetence. I am not just projecting, I read obsessively everything that is reported that I can find. New Orleans will always be a wonderful place. Tulane (my alma mater) will still be a wonderful university. But what person in their right mind would rebuild without some assurance that the levees will be built right and properly maintained? It will take many years before things are set up the way they should have been done to begin with. If you live or work within the confines of the city as it was back in the days before drainage canals and pumps then you may be safe -- assuming that the next hurricane isn't the really big one, the killer storm that comes up the Mississippi pushing the storm surge over the Mississippi River levees? That is the city killer that nightmares are made of. I would never go back except for a visit.