I know what it means to miss New Orleans

I am having a really hard time understanding how things went so bad so quickly in New Orleans.

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/weather/index.ssf?/base/national-50/1125576848107391.xml&storylist=hurricane

This is a truly horrific story. No food, water, medical supplis...looting, rapes, corpses just everywhere, shooting at helicopters, martial law.... from what is was when I was there in January just makes me sick to think of what it has become since the hurricane. I wonder how my "friends" there - the band from Maison du Bourbon, the swamp tour operator, the bus driver from our hotel that was so nice.... and now I hear Fats Domino has gone missing, among the other thousands. (Horrible but I thought he died years ago.) I cannot even begin to imagine what has happened to the old cemeteries that so fascinated Rob and I... the French Quarter, Emeril's restaurant.... the Garden District with it's verandahs and huge cypress trees, the Aquarium of the Americas, Harrah's Casino... so many wonderful places just gone.