Katrina (part 3)
New Orleans is filling with water from a break in the levee. Ernie is trying to get out of town.
I used to go to New Orleans for conferences or oral arguments in the old Fifth Circuit, but the longest I spent in New Orleans was in September 2001. I was on a panel at the International Municipal Lawyers Association. The terrorists hit the World Trade Center towers about an hour before I was to speak. I was stuck in the city until Friday when I got one of the first Southwest flights back to DC (where I was living at the time). It was a strange 3 or 4 days as I rode the hotel shuttle to the French Quarter, ate lunch near Jackson Square, went to the bookstores and art galleries, rode back to the hotel and watch far too much TV about the attacks.
What do you do when the place that was your refuge is now a place people must flee?
I pray for all the people of New Orleans.