I ain't got no problems. Retail friends from Louisiana--those inland at least--ain't got too many either. But those in New Orleans, those from Jackson and Gulfport, MS--THEY got problems.
40,000 homes in east New Orleans--GONE! Businesses, banks, malls, stadiums, neighborhoods, power plants, phone lines--GONE! GONE!
"It will never look the same again," says my good friend Brent Caplan from Alexandria, LA. Sewage and debris-laden storm water now inhabits the French Quarter and beyond. "Biblical historic proportions" is no over-statement.
Every glad handshake and warm embrace here at the convention is punctuated with worry about our cajun friends. What if OUR houses, OUR towns, OUR businesses and sources of income were GONE? GONE!
There but for the grace of God go we.
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