On Wed 31 Aug 2005 01:04:36a, sarah wrote in rec.food.preserving:

> I heard a BBC R4 interview about an hour ago with a university lecturer
> who got out of town in time, and whose wife and children had travelled
> up north earlier in the week to take the eldest to college. He said that
> last Thursday was just another day, Friday the serious warnings started
> and now... he said he was lucky, he knew he was lucky, his family was ok
> even if his house was likely to go under in the near future. He said
> that it wasn't losing the stuff that hurt, it was losing *the city* and
> all that it meant: New Orleans/that part of the South has given a lot to
> the rest of the world, even if it had taken a lot, too. He asked people
> who'd ever enjoyed New Orleans, or something that came from the city to
> pray for the city and those who live there. Or lived there. I was
> driving at the time, and had to pull off the road because I was crying.
> I listen to Clifton Chenier and Sonny Landreth and a host of other
> musicians from that area, or influenced by Cajun sounds. James Lee
> Burke's works are among the very, very few novels that sit on my
> shelves, rather than the library's. I don't pray, but I'd like to help.
> If anyone knows of a practical way a Brit could lend assistance, let me
> know.
>
> I don't even know the name of the interviewee.
>
> my very best wishes to everyone, everywhere.
> sarah

Sarah, you represent what I love and admire so much about the Brits!

Yes, apart from the catastrophic loss of life and property, we have lost an
irreplacable history and the physical effects of a culture that was unique.
I know that given time, the cities can be rebuilt, but the rest is probably
gone forever.

Thank you for understanding that...

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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unless there are three other people.