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Early in 1975 my employer transferred me to New Orleans. We lived there a little over four years.

Edwin "Smooth Eddie" Edwards was governor at the time.

There were fourth generation welfare recipients then. No telling how many more generations there are now. People talked about the fact that the pumps and conduits for removing flood water from the area were 100 years old and couldn't possibly handle a disaster like maybe a levee failure that would dump Lake Pontchartrain into the city. Political corruption was rampant. Except for private schools the schools were rotten.

I could go on.....

People complained but didn't do anything. State and local government did damn little (if anything) in the way of preventive measures to avoid the disaster that had to come, and come it did. Hurricanes came and the dikes failed and the pumps were useless. You know the rest of that part of that story.

I mentioned political corruption.... For what it's worth, Smooth Eddie went to the slammer a long time ago. As far as I know, he's still there.

Gary, take an interesting drive on highway 190 between Baton Rouge and New Orleans if you get a chance. You'll see what looks like hundreds of those FEMA trailers. Just sitting.

Louisiana now has a non-Democrat governor who is facing situations and dealing with problems and not sitting around waiting for the federal government to come riding in and do things that state and local entities should have faced up to many years ago.

New Orleans is an intriguing and very interesting city. A great place to visit. Our son is career Coast Guard and is stationed there. It's a long day's drive from where we live but the grand-kids are there so we'll do it.

Jim