These two lines jumped out at me from this story in the Washington Post on the future of the Ninth Ward:
Of the 160,000 buildings in Louisiana declared "uninhabitable" after Katrina, a majority are in the New Orleans neighborhoods that suffered extensive flooding.
160,000!?! And as if the here and now of this storm's effects weren't bad enough, the history that may be lost may be of a terrible scale, even though the damage in the French Quarter and Uptown appears not to have been cataclysmic:
New Orleans, with 20 districts on the National Register of Historic Places covering half the city, has the highest concentration of historic structures in the nation ...Posted by armand at October 3, 2005 01:06 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Natural Disasters