Comments on: New Orleans (updated) http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2006/06/28/new-orleans/ writing, reading, eating, drinking, sport Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:42:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Liz B. http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2006/06/28/new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-5022 Liz B. Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:09:24 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=362#comment-5022 As my first trip to New Orleans, it's hard to judge, but the people were so welcoming; and also wanted to know, what did people think? Did they think it was safe to visit? Did they know how bad it still was? While I had read & watched coverage at the time, having been there I want to go back and reread it because having seen the places I will be able to put it in better context. Oh, that's where so and so happened, etc. As my first trip to New Orleans, it’s hard to judge, but the people were so welcoming; and also wanted to know, what did people think? Did they think it was safe to visit? Did they know how bad it still was?

While I had read & watched coverage at the time, having been there I want to go back and reread it because having seen the places I will be able to put it in better context. Oh, that’s where so and so happened, etc.

]]> By: Justine http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2006/06/28/new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-4978 Justine Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:17:10 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=362#comment-4978 Cecil: Ta! Marrije: *Cough*. Apparently we hear tonnes about it too and I've been living with my head in a bucket. I plead way too much travel and onerous deadlines. Monica: Mea culpa! See my update and thanks so much for calling me on my mistakes. See also the lame excuse offered to Marrije. Rebecca: I feel the same way. Scott's been talking about us doing a writing holiday there for ages. Other than NYC it's his favourite city in the US. We'll still do that, but I sure wonder what it used to be like. Orangedragonfly: Don't apologise, we need to hear all these stories! Thanks for sharing. Overall, I left feeling optimistic. So many of the New Orleanians I met are working so hard to revive their city and volunteers are coming from all over the country to help too. There are way too many people who love NOLA for it to be allowed to die. Me and Scott are definitely going back. Cecil: Ta!

Marrije: *Cough*. Apparently we hear tonnes about it too and I’ve been living with my head in a bucket. I plead way too much travel and onerous deadlines.

Monica: Mea culpa! See my update and thanks so much for calling me on my mistakes. See also the lame excuse offered to Marrije.

Rebecca: I feel the same way. Scott’s been talking about us doing a writing holiday there for ages. Other than NYC it’s his favourite city in the US. We’ll still do that, but I sure wonder what it used to be like.

Orangedragonfly: Don’t apologise, we need to hear all these stories! Thanks for sharing.

Overall, I left feeling optimistic. So many of the New Orleanians I met are working so hard to revive their city and volunteers are coming from all over the country to help too. There are way too many people who love NOLA for it to be allowed to die. Me and Scott are definitely going back.

]]> By: orangedragonfly http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2006/06/28/new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-4897 orangedragonfly Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:50:20 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=362#comment-4897 i know what you mean, rebecca. my husband and i were visiting friends in mandeville, la two days before katrina hit (directly across the causeway from new orleans, on the north side of lake ponchetrain). the actual day katrina hit we had planned to spend all day in new orleans, mostly because i'd never been there before. anyway, as soon as it looked like katrina might turn we packed ourselves and our friends up and headed up to our house (in kentucky) where they stayed with us for awhile. it was a tense and scary time, watching the events unfold with our friends who might see images of friends or neighbors, or their house with a tree through the roof, on the televisoin. (thankfully, there was no major damage or injury in their neighborhood, as they live on *slightly* higher ground..) in the aftermath, i'm glad to have friends down there because i hear firsthand accounts of what's going on. i'm hoping to make it down there later this summer or autumn. i hope i can handle it. (sorry to go on so much. thanks for telling us about your experiences, justine. we need to be reminded what's happening.) i know what you mean, rebecca. my husband and i were visiting friends in mandeville, la two days before katrina hit (directly across the causeway from new orleans, on the north side of lake ponchetrain). the actual day katrina hit we had planned to spend all day in new orleans, mostly because i’d never been there before.

anyway, as soon as it looked like katrina might turn we packed ourselves and our friends up and headed up to our house (in kentucky) where they stayed with us for awhile. it was a tense and scary time, watching the events unfold with our friends who might see images of friends or neighbors, or their house with a tree through the roof, on the televisoin. (thankfully, there was no major damage or injury in their neighborhood, as they live on *slightly* higher ground..)

in the aftermath, i’m glad to have friends down there because i hear firsthand accounts of what’s going on. i’m hoping to make it down there later this summer or autumn. i hope i can handle it.

(sorry to go on so much. thanks for telling us about your experiences, justine. we need to be reminded what’s happening.)

]]> By: Rebecca http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2006/06/28/new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-4886 Rebecca Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:57:25 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=362#comment-4886 i've never been to new orleans. i really wish i had gotten the chance before katrina messed it up. i'd never been to the wtc before sep. 11 either. every now and then, when the subject comes up, i find myself regretting that i was never able to see these places before something changed them forever. i’ve never been to new orleans. i really wish i had gotten the chance before katrina messed it up. i’d never been to the wtc before sep. 11 either. every now and then, when the subject comes up, i find myself regretting that i was never able to see these places before something changed them forever.

]]> By: Monica Edinger http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2006/06/28/new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-4877 Monica Edinger Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:47:30 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=362#comment-4877 I'm so glad you are posting about New Orleans, but I have to say I think you are a bit unfair about the NY Times in this regard (because I could grip about that paper too in other areas:). But I read the print edition daily and they've had almost daily articles on New Orleans so I'm puzzled by your statement that the only article they had in a month was on the suicides. That isn't so! Thinking perhaps I was imagining them (although it is the only newspaper I read), I did a search at their site and there have been many, many articles, not just one last a month. I think they've been doing a good job keeping New Orleans in the news. I too am just back from ALA and wrote a long post to child_lit about my experiencing touring the devastated areas with a friend from there (whose home was destroyed). Monica I’m so glad you are posting about New Orleans, but I have to say I think you are a bit unfair about the NY Times in this regard (because I could grip about that paper too in other areas:). But I read the print edition daily and they’ve had almost daily articles on New Orleans so I’m puzzled by your statement that the only article they had in a month was on the suicides. That isn’t so! Thinking perhaps I was imagining them (although it is the only newspaper I read), I did a search at their site and there have been many, many articles, not just one last a month. I think they’ve been doing a good job keeping New Orleans in the news.

I too am just back from ALA and wrote a long post to child_lit about my experiencing touring the devastated areas with a friend from there (whose home was destroyed).

Monica

]]> By: marrije http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2006/06/28/new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-4874 marrije Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:17:43 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=362#comment-4874 it's a shame and a disgrace that the situation in new orleans is still so bad, months and months after the hurricane. i guess we hear a little bit more about it here in the netherlands, where we have a special interest in dikes and sea levels and such: newspapers still regularly report on all the badness going on. but still, reading your report makes me sad and angry all over again. and happy for projects like dewey donation system. it’s a shame and a disgrace that the situation in new orleans is still so bad, months and months after the hurricane.

i guess we hear a little bit more about it here in the netherlands, where we have a special interest in dikes and sea levels and such: newspapers still regularly report on all the badness going on. but still, reading your report makes me sad and angry all over again. and happy for projects like dewey donation system.

]]> By: cecil http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2006/06/28/new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-4862 cecil Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:52:38 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=362#comment-4862 I am very glad that you posted this account, too. For it is interesting and important. I am very glad that you posted this account, too. For it is interesting and important.

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