I exclaimed in horror when i hit that link. My mother asked what at and I summarized it. She says the City Council has since made them stop doing this.
Admittedly I saw other cars in the areas we went through that were probably doing the same disaster tour thing we were, but it's different when it's you doing it yourself to see your personal landmarks - seeing a formal list of the Worst Bits, regardless of your connection to them, is kinda nasty.
I've been home after a good while before, and there's a little of that scrambledness no matter what. New Orleans was increasingly alien each time I'd visit. But coming back after a major change to either yourself or your home changes it even more. I felt very different about coming back to the city when I was going to live there; I was looking forwards to doing stuff I'd always avoided due to being a morose little shard of miserable boy. I'd changed a lot, and the city had changed a little. Now after Katrina, I think it's the one that's changed even more; now the city's the miserable, broken one...
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Date: 2006-01-07 05:20 pm (UTC)Admittedly I saw other cars in the areas we went through that were probably doing the same disaster tour thing we were, but it's different when it's you doing it yourself to see your personal landmarks - seeing a formal list of the Worst Bits, regardless of your connection to them, is kinda nasty.
I've been home after a good while before, and there's a little of that scrambledness no matter what. New Orleans was increasingly alien each time I'd visit. But coming back after a major change to either yourself or your home changes it even more. I felt very different about coming back to the city when I was going to live there; I was looking forwards to doing stuff I'd always avoided due to being a morose little shard of miserable boy. I'd changed a lot, and the city had changed a little. Now after Katrina, I think it's the one that's changed even more; now the city's the miserable, broken one...