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We need the groups that solved the logistics of relief for the Tsunami. Ask please for help from the French/German/Swiss and British people who organised most of that relief effort. This is too big for small men; we need proffessionals. George; send for help from France.
Why France, they'll just hand them a corkscrew, a bottle of wine and some cheese. Then the people of N.O. will eat the cheese get drunk and stab each other with the corkscrews. Sounds like a catch-22 situation to me.
O'Kay. But at least something might get done. Better than what they have now.
An interesting thing happened the other day. A Swedish company sent a group over with their equipment (big freezer trucks and stuff like that). They went to the city to gather up some of the old historic documents that are stored in New Orleans - Spanish land grants, ship manifests from the slave trade, records from plantations that decendants of slaves use to chart family histories, old French legal documents (Louisiana law is still based on Napoleonic Code; unique legal system in all of the US; no reciprocity for the Bar as I understand it). They have a unique process for preserving documents and they wanted to help. Anyway,soldiers turned them away - wouldn't allow them access to the city, so all that's probably going to be lost now. Mold has already overtaken most houses that were flooded and are now above the water line (chiefly Jefferson Parish). We got our first delivery of food and ice into the area that I live in on Sunday morning - private company, not Gov't (A&P)- six days after the hurricane - 10 lbs of ice per family but you couldn't have the ice if you were in line for food because they didn't want to get the floor of the store wet from dripping bags of ice. We took the ice. My family's been very fortunate, and I'm not really complaining - but it's just amazing to see how things happen in a situation like this - there's no imaginging it; you've got to live through it to have any idea of what it's like. Will try to write again when a connection is available. Charlie
Great to hear from you, Charlie. Everyone here is thinking about you. Thanks for keeping us posted, and be sure to let us know if there's anything we can do. Once you get settled a bit, I'll bet we can all put together some sound equipment for you. Let us know.