Originally posted by BP: i understand that. if he's inviting people to come back permanently to areas which can't support any type of temporary presence at all then you're right. i honestly haven't seen that though.
Last Thursday the mayor announced he was allowing approximately 182,000 people (the population of 8 ZIP codes) to return to the city. Not to come in and clean -- to come in and stay. That's 1/3 of the population of the entire city.
He said that by September 26th, the French Quarter would be fully-powered and re-opened for tourism (I swear to God he's gotta be on something), despite warnings that warnings that being hasty in returning the power could cause fires, and burn their historic district that managed to survive virtually intact to the ground.
