Saturday, November 20, 2010
Everything fails: don't drink the water (or conduct a real estate transaction, or use the freeway ramp)
Posted by Kevin Allman on Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:09 AM
Dear Huey Long:
Well, it's been a week here in New Orleans. First it was the highways; we're putting in this new freeway ramp, but it's closed down and a big mess because the concrete was a bad mix or something — we're not exactly sure, but it's all closed down now and there's a bunch of scary cracks in the infrastructure.
Then there's the computer crash affecting mortgage data and real estate sales in the city, which has been going on for about a month now with no end in sight. The City Council had an emergency meeting last night about it and didn't seem to come up with any answers ("no end in sight" was the phrase), but I suppose we can be reassured that they're on top of things because our clerk of court cared enough to phone into the emergency meeting.
And then late last night the water went out in most parts of the city. As usual, Twitter was on top of it right away. The water came back on pretty quickly, but a lot of people were in bed and didn't even know about it — they got up and made coffee, brushed their teeth, etc., before the city issued a boil-water advisory. Again, thanks, Twitter, because the city's new whizbang website, which is the official conduit for emergency information, still doesn't seem to know anything about it. Neither does the state website for the Department of Health & Hospitals, which actually issued the order.
You know that "every man a king" thing? It sure sounds good right now.
Whoops, my water's boiling. Gotta run. Anyway, happy Thanksgiving and give our love to the kids.
— K.
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More of the same... third world country at a rich man's price.. We continue to be asked to pay top dollar taxes for below standard civil services.....
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When all else fails, drink. I got Old New Orleans Amber if anyone wants a shot. No boiling necessary.
As we go, so will the rest of the nation...they just don't realize it yet. Gonna grab me an Abita Pecan Harvest now and pray this stuff doesn't follow me at my parents' over the hollerdays.
"As we go, so will the rest of the nation..."
No the rest of the nation doersn't have Old New Orleans Rum or Abita Beer, so they will never go as we go.
If you think about it. What did we want more thna anything else? The sainst to win the Superbowl. Therefore in order to pay fgor our drteam to come true, we had to suffer with the rest of this nonsense. If the Hornets ever win the NBA title, the laws of physics will change such that brass instrunents will fail. Pick your poison.
Hi Kevin,
I am Ben Mintz, Publisher and Editor of the NOLA Defender, a local
online-paper. For a while now, we've been running an advice column titled,
"Ask Dead Huey Long," in which the Louisiana Lazarus rises from the grave
to answer letters from readers. We noticed that you, too, recently wrote a
letter to Huey Long, and (always in need of letters to answer!) HPL decided
to write you a response. Link follows...
http://miniurl.com/68834
Hopefully, you chuckle s much reading the piece as we did writing it.
Best,
b.e.m.
