The Problem

maddieangl2504: is everything almost rebuilt where you live?
GracelynEMusica: :: laughs ::
GracelynEMusica: poor, poor, Yankee
maddieangl2504: hey!
maddieangl2504: not fair!
GracelynEMusica: It will never all be rebuilt
maddieangl2504: ohh...
GracelynEMusica: The parish below us?
GracelynEMusica: (parish = county)
maddieangl2504: uh huh..?
GracelynEMusica: There's only one building standing
GracelynEMusica: IN THE ENTIRE PARISH
maddieangl2504: eek
maddieangl2504: still?
GracelynEMusica: yup
GracelynEMusica: The courthouse
maddieangl2504: but it's been forever...
maddieangl2504: oh
maddieangl2504: wow
GracelynEMusica: honey, these things take time
GracelynEMusica: and money
GracelynEMusica: In ten years?
GracelynEMusica: It'll be close
GracelynEMusica: But no
GracelynEMusica: it'll never be fixed
maddieangl2504: oh
maddieangl2504: ....
maddieangl2504: but...but...
maddieangl2504: ten years!
GracelynEMusica: Rebuilt implies everything being the same it was
GracelynEMusica: :: shakes head ::
GracelynEMusica: We lost landmarks
GracelynEMusica: we lost trees
GracelynEMusica: we lost miles of coastland
GracelynEMusica: We're still losing wetlands and wildlife
maddieangl2504: oh...
maddieangl2504: ummm... whoa
GracelynEMusica: That's the problem
GracelynEMusica: Unless you live here
GracelynEMusica: You can't grasp the gravity of it
GracelynEMusica: And that was just here.
GracelynEMusica: Katrina did more in Mississippi and Alabama
GracelynEMusica: But New Orleans gets all the press
maddieangl2504: why?
maddieangl2504: because it's New Orleans?
GracelynEMusica: Because they went barking mad and started looting
maddieangl2504: that was a little odd
GracelynEMusica: :: shrugs ::
GracelynEMusica: People go crazy