"You're from N.O.? How is the city doing? Is it as bad as I've seen reported? I've heard the gov't has pretty much abandoned you guys. That hurricane was a tragedy, but the response (from the gov't) was a crime."

Yup, I'm in the big sleazy....er I mean easy (actually 20 min north but I work in the city). I lived here 3 months before the hurricane and I moved my family back 5 months after the storm when the company I worked for offered a lot of money to come back. Money wasn't the only reason, my parents took a pretty big hit so I also came back to help out. Once they got back on their feet they took off but my little family stayed.

I'm an old school dude as in real men don't cry but I just couldn't help it after arriving here a month later and still seeing the destruction all the way from N.O to Biloxi MS. All I could think about was pictures I'd seen of Europe and Japan during WWII. Just complete devastation and you just can't see how any city along the coast could come back from that.

Alas, people are resilient and all of the cities are bouncing back. In parts of LA and MS you can hardly tell there was a storm. In other parts, to this day, it still looks like it happened last week.

All I can say about the government is that I've learned it's best not to rely on them. Get yourself straight, make sure your family is protected then pray for the rest.......and I'm not even a religious man.