I have been to New Orleans twice. First for the 1991 STOC conference
which overlapped the Jazz and Heritage festival. Then again in 1994,
one last fling when my wife was pregnant with our first child. We went
to the French quarter for crawfish and listened to Jazz at
Preservation Hall,
took the trolley down St. Charles Avenue, got our baseball fix with
the New Orleans Zephyrs AAA team (the major league teams were on
strike) and saw the Mother's Day Parade ("Mother" being a
famous New Orleans transvestite).
Now this famous city lies mostly flooded, one of the victims of
Hurricane Katrina. A major city, which has hosted many Superbowls and
the biggest party in America in the days before lent, lies devastated
by the hurricane, not to mention the tremendous damage in other Gulf
Coast communities.
With the tsunami last December, nature has not been
kind to us this year.
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