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[Tiger Beer]

New Orleans...how is the city post-Katrina? Anyone been?

[danita30]

Post Katrina lot of work to be done. I've seen where stores have not returned like half of the suburbs are empty. I am from the Mississippi Gulf Coast and my Aunt just got her roof fixed in June 07 and how long ago was Katrina? The insurance compaies still don't want to pay enough money to fix people's houses.

[sojourner1]

I recently read that it's the coldest job market in the US, even more so than Detroit. It's too bad that the area won't fully recover anytime soon.

[Flash Ipanema]

I was in New Orleans last year for Halloween and the French Quarter seemed about the same to me. Although we did drive by some houses with X's painted on the front doors still. We were only there a few days so we didn't leave the Quarter, but there were a lot of people out celebrating the holiday and pouring money back into the economy. If nothing else, that's a good reason to go.

[merkurix]

Went there two weeks ago. It seemed quite normal to me. The only hurricane damage I saw on the French Quarter was some water spots on buildings and standing sticks of trees on Interstate 10 with branches and leaves completely torn off and leaning. There are more assaults than usual right outside in the shadows of Bourbon St. but it was very packed with revelers, musicians and tourists all hours of the day and night.

[Richard Krainium]

I was there in February of this year and had a great time. Everything was up and running. I asked one of the waiters at Pat O'Briens (as I was enjoying my second Hurricane) how much damage the restaurant suffered and he said they weren't hit hard at all. In fact, they were only closed for two weeks.

The French Quarter is located on the highest ground in New Orleans and was thus spared the devastation the rest of the city suffered.