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New Orleans after Katrina: Back to Stone Age
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-07 08:59
Keeping up tradition
Still, not all is desperation.
On a third-floor balcony in the French Quarter, a dozen neighbors have come
together, toting water from the Mississippi to flush their toilets, sharing what
food they've got left on a stove that still has gas, keeping their homes safe
and dry.
"I've got a pear and an orange left," said Jill Sanders, an artist and
paralegal who is better known around the neighborhood as Jelly Sandwich.
A bar or two stays open. "I go down to Molly's in the evenings. I put on
makeup and something nice. It cheers people up" -- and it raises her own
spirits, she said.
Around the corner, a few dozen staffers at a hotel they've kept open held a
Labor Day barbecue. Tradition is tradition.
Some holdouts here believe they'll be just fine if they could only get water,
or power, or phone service. None of it is coming soon, officials say.
So far, people can find shelter and food to scavenge, but not forever. In
their place are many, many threats: disease in the dirty floodwaters. Fires in
wet homes, and overtaxed fire crews that can't respond. Lawlessness.
Eventually, officials say, they've got to evacuate everybody, and start over
again.
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