I promise I'll get around to posting something of substance again soon...

My blog got me through the storms... i was able to externalize a lot of my internal madness during that period by madly typing away to the world things that I wasn't able to say to my housemates at the time. And things that we were all saying.

But then I hit a period where I really didn't want to talk about it, write about it, look at pictures of or in any way acknowledge what we had been through, what we are still going through and what the future holds for NOLA.

We spent a weekend in the city recently and it made things both better and worse for me. I very much needed to be in the city, to see it with my own eyes again. And it helped. But it also hurt. At least I can look at pictures of the aftermath now without immediately bursting into tears.

I'm terrified though. Without continued and massive support, New Orleans is not going to be there anymore. The government is going back on their promises, shuffling us under the rug. The rest of the country is forgetting, they think of it as something that happened, not something that is happening. Large portions of the city are in danger of never being anything close to what they were again. There are miles and miles and miles of people's home that are just completely destroyed.

Hmm... ok... I'll continue this later.

Just... don't forget about New Orleans...