It’s not over as long as the people come back. A lot of New Orleans lives in its old buildings and wrinkled trees, but New Orleans, at its heart, is all about the people that live there. If you can’t appreciate some corruption and filth and debauchery, you probably won’t appreciate this place. If you’ve never been here, don’t worry; It’ll be back, better than ever. The quarter survived pretty as you please, and since most that visit see little outside of that anyway, you won’t notice much change.

Good luck to those outside of NO; many along the gulf didn’t far as well, as unbelievable as that may sound.