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[stardances]

Yesterday started auspiciously, with a flurry of quick tidying up and several phone calls, then a visit from the woods... a doe, two fawns with a buck following at their heels. The day progressed so wonderfully, my lj friend Carocrow came for a long visit, I popped some cookies in the oven, we had tea, sketched and painted a bit then her wonderful

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[marstokyo]

WOW!!! I hope this gets FULLY investigated! But by who? you know there will be MASSIVE stonewalling (no pun intended)--I'm so cynical it wouldn't at all surprise me.

[hopefoot]

See now I'm confused. I saw from 2 seperate sources that the French Quarter (the Garden District wasn't mentioned) is high ground. One was from an article about how some people stayed in their French Quarter homes through it all and are still there, and then I asked an LJ friend who lives in LA (not near NOLA, about 2 hours away) and she's done lots of reading about the history of NOLA (she's a history buff) and she said that the oldest part of the city is the French Quarter and that that is where they picked to settle because of the fact that it's high ground.

What do you think?

[stardances]

Well, considering the Mississippi river runs along Decatur Street (the River Walk, St. Louis Cathedral, Cafe DuMonde and any number of historic/ tourist locals are along that stretch, including the Aquarium) and the fact that when I lived in the Quarter it would flood if we only had two inches of rain I would say that is not accurate. I don't think that inadequate pumping would have caused the ready flooding. The other side of the Mississippi from uptown to all the way down into St. Bernard Parish the property that ran along the river were submerged

[hopefoot]

Hehehe. I'll take it from you! You I trust as a source.