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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
2 years on, the world again comes to New Orleans
Many British newspapers have sent journalists to New Orleans this week to check out the city two years after Hurricane Katrina. Almost all reports were dismal with most writers highlighting mile after mile of abandoned homes, disappearing behind creeping vegetation.
“There has been progress but it has been slow and limited, lacking energy and drive,” wrote Ewen MacAskill in the Guardian.
The Daily Telegraph’s Tom Leonard noted that the historic French Quarter was as beautiful as ever and that tourism is recovering. “But across the city one hears of people unable to find anything like the sort of jobs they once held,” he wrote.
The BBC’s James Coomarasamy said that thousands of evacuees have yet to return home and for those who have, or who actually stayed, there are still areas which have no gas, electricity or proper sewage systems.
All in all, he said, much remains to be done.
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