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By Last Night in Little Rock, Section Huricanes Katrina and Rita
Posted on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 04:15:52 AM EST
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by Last Night in Little Rock

I received overnight from one of my legal assistants a page from the Time-Picayune, Marching On, of a small parade and party in the French Quarter in place of Southern Decadence, an annual gay pride celebration that was cancelled because of the storm. He and his partner were going, for like the fifteenth year in a row, but it was cancelled.

The page from the Times-Picayune at least brings hope of recovery of the NOLA tourist trade because the French Quarter appears dry.

That is small consolation, however, to the people whose homes are underwater and the vast number who died. As Sean Hannity said on FoxNews on that priceless video on Crooks and Liars, let's get some perspective:

We all know the French Quarter. But, unless you've spent time on the trolley and visited the Garden District or gone elsewhere in the city, you don't know the rest of New Orleans, and that's where the death and destruction lies.

My best friend moved to NOLA ten years ago from Arkansas, and he took me all over the city to interesting restaurants, bars, and jazz joints. It is apparent from these pictures that the French Quarter will be back, because we know the musicians will return because that is their life, and they can't do that work just anywhere.

If tourism comes back, the city will come back to some degree, but how long will it take?

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