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The New York Times has an interesting piece on what the last five years have been like for the Superdome.
''It looked like Armageddon,'' [Superdome manager Doug Thornton] said. ''And I thought, 'It's over. I'll never be back here. This is the last time I'll see it,' and I just cried all the way to Baton Rouge. I felt so depressed. It was an ugly sight and an awful feeling.''
With the Saints' recent rise to prominence in the NFL, the team seems wholly unable to avoid being joined at the yoke with Hurricane Katrina commentary. Nor should it. Even more so than with the post-9/11 New York teams, the disaster is part of the Saints' identity. And although we've watched this story unfold for years now, it still strikes me as amazing and hardly believable that this team is where it is today.
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My Home is in the Dome!
I was a Calif. tourist stuck in the Louisiana Superdome during Katrina. The NY Times description is right on. It’s funny but I returned to the Superdome in 2006 after it was restored, for a Saints exhibition game. And once again some rain drops fell on my head even after the restoration. All I could do was laugh and cry to myself.
Still I must confess I have changed my loyalties from a life-long 49ers fan to the Saints. What they have done with the city from an emotional and financial standpoint cannot be underestimated.
Paul Harris
Author, “Diary From the Dome, Reflections on Fear and Privilege During Katrina”
by sfgiants3 on Jan 23, 2010 4:39 AM EST reply actions
Katrina was a terrorist attack!
Five years have gone by and nobody’s investigated it yet. This guys tells it all in his book Katrina Nights: Love in the Time of Flooding. It’s also there on his website KatrinaNights.com. You oughtta check it out.
by Jeangalt on Jan 23, 2010 4:53 AM EST reply actions
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