Though 50 percent of New Orleans remains flooded and teams are still working to recover the dead, there are signs that hopelessness is beginning to lift two weeks after Hurricane Katrina plowed ashore.
Burnt-orange rubble from terra-cotta tiles, wrenched from roofs and scattered about the French Quarter, wait in neat piles for collection along the curb. Bourbon Street is cleaner than it ever is during Mardi Gras. And Donald Jones, a 57-year-old lifelong resident, is no longer armed when walking his street.
“The first five days I never went out of my house without my gun, now I don’t carry it,” Jones said, starting to laugh. “The only people I meet is military.”
“Each day there’s a little bit of an improvement,” Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen, commander of the New Orleans relief efforts, told NBC News on Sunday night. “And in the end run, maybe a week, two weeks from now, someone’s going to wake in the morning and have something they didn’t have the day before, and that’s hope.”
The sun is beginning to shine
Posted by Pam
on 9/12/2005
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