New Orleans Bound

We left Friday afternoon around 3:00pm and headed for Metairie to spend Christmas with Tammy's family. I had not been back in the New Orleans area since pre-Katrina and I was amazed at how dark(lightless) parts of New Orleans still are. Pre-Katrina when you would drive through New Orleans East at night you were surrounded by the glow of lights from homes, bussinesses and the streets. I think I counted about a dozen individual locations that had one or two generator powered lights glowing as we drove by on I-10. Crossing the industrial canal Gentilly was even darker than NO East.