Of course, but that is less shocking to locals (or maybe just to me) than it might be to others, hearing about it. Gretna is a bit player in the New Orleans area drama and I would hate for this to be their defining moment. It is not altogether a bad place or population dense enough to effect much of anything one way or the other. And why I mentioned part of the mob being tourists, or conventioneers, is because the story would not have gotten the same coverage otherwise. If it had been all poor New Orleans blacks, the reaction would have been, hmm, idin that a shame, what else you got? I heard the NPR story, it was very compelling, but...I mean the whole thing was compelling, that one week drama following the flood, but, except for all the water and the deaths related to it, and the microscope of world press coverage, really, it was a pretty average week in New Orleans. The whole month of August 2005 was a travesty, not too many people talking about the first 27 days though.
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- jimlouis 11-16-2005 2:59 am