OT: Vieux Carre??

Frenchy said:

Having spent a wonderful few days around Bourbon Street and the French
quarter in May this year, I look at all the news, but don't see anything
with reference to damage in this area?

Can anyone let me know? I appreciate the pain and suffering for the
greater NO area, but that specific French Quarter was magic (and all those
beads for [censored] <smile>😉, so hope that can spring back

The French Quarter didn't sustain any *flood* damage, though there was some
lesser damage from winds and from looters.

Bob

Bob said:

Frenchy said:

Having spent a wonderful few days around Bourbon Street and the French
quarter in May this year, I look at all the news, but don't see anything
with reference to damage in this area?

Can anyone let me know? I appreciate the pain and suffering for the
greater NO area, but that specific French Quarter was magic (and all those
beads for [censored] <smile>😉, so hope that can spring back

The French Quarter didn't sustain any *flood* damage, though there was some
lesser damage from winds and from looters.

Bob

Are you sure about that? I could swear I saw some video of slightly
flooded parts of the FQ, about a foot or two of water.

N.

Frenchy said:

Having spent a wonderful few days around Bourbon Street and the French quarter in
May this year, I look at all the news, but don't see anything with reference to
damage in this area?

Can anyone let me know? I appreciate the pain and suffering for the greater NO
area, but that specific French Quarter was magic (and all those beads for [censored]
<smile>😉, so hope that can spring back

Frenchy
In New Zealand

It's still there. I'm sure you'll get to visit it again someday.

"Terry Ebbert, chief of homeland security for New Orleans, said the
French Quarter appeared to survive Katrina better than any of the
city’s neighorhoods."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9121330/

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Reg email: RegForte (at) (that free MS email service) (dot) com

"Reg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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: Frenchy wrote:
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: > Having spent a wonderful few days around Bourbon Street and the French quarter
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: > May this year, I look at all the news, but don't see anything with reference
to
: > damage in this area?
: >
: > Can anyone let me know? I appreciate the pain and suffering for the greater
NO
: > area, but that specific French Quarter was magic (and all those beads for
[censored]
: > <smile>😉, so hope that can spring back
: >
: > Frenchy
: > In New Zealand
:
: It's still there. I'm sure you'll get to visit it again someday.
:
: "Terry Ebbert, chief of homeland security for New Orleans, said the
: French Quarter appeared to survive Katrina better than any of the
: city’s neighorhoods."
:
: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9121330/
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: Reg email: RegForte (at) (that free MS email service) (dot) com

Great stuff!! Appreciate that link

Frenchy

Frenchy said:

"Reg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
: It's still there. I'm sure you'll get to visit it again someday.
:
: "Terry Ebbert, chief of homeland security for New Orleans, said the
: French Quarter appeared to survive Katrina better than any of the
: city’s neighorhoods."
:
: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9121330/

Great stuff!! Appreciate that link

Frenchy

You're welcome. It is hereby renamed "The Frenchy Quarter"!

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Reg email: RegForte (at) (that free MS email service) (dot) com

Nancy1 said:

Bob said:

Frenchy said:

Having spent a wonderful few days around Bourbon Street and the

French

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quarter in May this year, I look at all the news, but don't see

anything

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with reference to damage in this area?

Can anyone let me know? I appreciate the pain and suffering for

the

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greater NO area, but that specific French Quarter was magic (and

all those

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Quoted message said:

beads for [censored] <smile>😉, so hope that can spring back

The French Quarter didn't sustain any *flood* damage, though there

was some

Quoted message said:

lesser damage from winds and from looters.

Bob

Are you sure about that? I could swear I saw some video of slightly
flooded parts of the FQ, about a foot or two of water.

N.

I seem to remember the seeing same thing, the last images i saw,
though, were of dry streets in the French area. All very dry & quite
there now, as far as i can tell, out here in here in California,
watching the t.v.

I still think they should preserve that area, and the parc and the
cathedral and historically important buildings, moving and resettling
them if necessary, but it almost seem to me horribly cynical mind like a
chance to embrace urban planning by natural disaster.

Turn 'Olde New Orleans' into an American Venice, sure, keep the heavy
industry and the worker housing but embrace the chance to resettle the
masses into a better situation for them, dispersing them about the
country. Or at least the surrounding area. And all that with a proper
'buy out' and not some lame government 'charity.'

Of course, if i were The Supreme Emperor And Overlord Of The Entire
Known Universe i would evict every body from California and turn it into
a national parc.
---
J (sim - city addict) L

Reg said:

Frenchy said:

Having spent a wonderful few days around Bourbon Street and the French
quarter in May this year, I look at all the news, but don't see
anything with reference to damage in this area?

Can anyone let me know? I appreciate the pain and suffering for the
greater NO area, but that specific French Quarter was magic (and all
those beads for [censored] <smile>😉, so hope that can spring back

Frenchy
In New Zealand

It's still there. I'm sure you'll get to visit it again someday.

"Terry Ebbert, chief of homeland security for New Orleans, said the
French Quarter appeared to survive Katrina better than any of the
city’s neighorhoods."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9121330/

Considering that it's the oldest part of the city, most of the buildings
have been through a number of hurricanes in the past centuries. It's
all the swamp land that was filled in that flooded.

--Charlene

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for teamwork and disdain for academics will someday catapult him into
the corporate boardroom. -- Bayan, Rick; The Cynic's Dictionary, 2002

email perronnelle at earthlink . net

Bob' virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz said:

Frenchy said:

Having spent a wonderful few days around Bourbon Street and the
French quarter in May this year, I look at all the news, but don't
see anything with reference to damage in this area?

Can anyone let me know? I appreciate the pain and suffering for the
greater NO area, but that specific French Quarter was magic (and all
those beads for [censored] <smile>😉, so hope that can spring back

The French Quarter didn't sustain any *flood* damage, though there was
some lesser damage from winds and from looters.

Bob

A wall was ripped off of Antoine's exposing the main dining room to the
street. The facade of the Commander's Palace was blown away, also.
Similar damage to many other building that weren't made of stone, brick
or concrete. Formosan termites seriously weakened all of the wooden
structures over the last decade. This is the primary reason that all of
the wooden houses that were submerged will have to be bulldozed. The
water went right through the termite tunnels in the wood and there's
absolutely no way to dry it out before it fills with mold and rots.

Bubbabob replied:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The French Quarter didn't sustain any *flood* damage, though there was
some lesser damage from winds and from looters.

A wall was ripped off of Antoine's exposing the main dining room to the
street. The facade of the Commander's Palace was blown away, also.
Similar damage to many other building that weren't made of stone, brick
or concrete. Formosan termites seriously weakened all of the wooden
structures over the last decade. This is the primary reason that all of
the wooden houses that were submerged will have to be bulldozed. The
water went right through the termite tunnels in the wood and there's
absolutely no way to dry it out before it fills with mold and rots.

I'll give you Antoine's, but since when is the Commander's Palace in the
French Quarter?

Bob

On Sat 03 Sep 2005 02:10:04a, Bob wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

Bubbabob replied:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The French Quarter didn't sustain any *flood* damage, though there was
some lesser damage from winds and from looters.

A wall was ripped off of Antoine's exposing the main dining room to the
street. The facade of the Commander's Palace was blown away, also.
Similar damage to many other building that weren't made of stone, brick
or concrete. Formosan termites seriously weakened all of the wooden
structures over the last decade. This is the primary reason that all of
the wooden houses that were submerged will have to be bulldozed. The
water went right through the termite tunnels in the wood and there's
absolutely no way to dry it out before it fills with mold and rots.

I'll give you Antoine's, but since when is the Commander's Palace in the
French Quarter?

Bob

I dunno. Since Katrina blew it there?

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four,
unless there are three other people.

Bob' virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz said:

Bubbabob replied:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The French Quarter didn't sustain any *flood* damage, though there
was some lesser damage from winds and from looters.

A wall was ripped off of Antoine's exposing the main dining room to
the street. The facade of the Commander's Palace was blown away,
also. Similar damage to many other building that weren't made of
stone, brick or concrete. Formosan termites seriously weakened all of
the wooden structures over the last decade. This is the primary
reason that all of the wooden houses that were submerged will have to
be bulldozed. The water went right through the termite tunnels in the
wood and there's absolutely no way to dry it out before it fills with
mold and rots.

I'll give you Antoine's, but since when is the Commander's Palace in
the French Quarter?

Bob

Good point. I included it because it was in the same report that I got.
It's not like the wind damage to restaurants is going to be a whole lot
different due to what part of town they're in; unlike the flood damage.