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[benlehman]

I was in New Orleans a month ago. I had butter-fried pecan pie and po' boys with Clinton Nixon, and hung out in coffee shops that were also bars. It was a great city, a slow city, and I was even fantasizing about living there someday.

It's just unreal.

Clinton, I'm glad your alive and out. I can't imagine what you must be going through right now.

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[chgriffen.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure when the last time in history was that a whole city was just wiped out. It's hard to believe. And yeah, there's a lot of blaming going around, and I am not innocent of that myself. But the most important part now is to help people out of this mess.

[(Anonymous)]

In history? Fairly recently. Take Dhaka, Bangladesh as an example. Flooding there is often as bad as it is in New Orleans now. Bam, Iran in the earthquake, only a couple of years ago. Quality of building construction makes a big difference....

In U.S. history? Doesn't happen often. Barely happens at all. San Francisco, 1906. Atlanta, 1864. Only a couple of others. Not in our lifetimes, or necessarily even in living memory.

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