Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Normalcy is just getting back to normal. Having electricity and running water, having open stores and restaurants, having postal service. Having trash pickup. > > From: bruce <bruce@ralgo.nl> > Date: 2006/03/14 Tue AM 10:06:11 EST > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Jeffery PAW - Week 11 - Our Return To Normalcy > > What was "normalcy" in that? > > B. > > On 14-mrt-2006, at 15:52, Chris Williams wrote: > > > Jeff's not really telling the full story of "normalcy". About an > > 1hr later, we were hangin' with 2 old ladies who were wearing > > oversized green underwear - on the outside! Now that's New Orleans > > "normalcy"! > > > > Chris > > > > > > Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote: > > In 1993, I bought a 150-year-old house in the Irish Channel > > because I had > > been through 4 floods and knew that the Irish Channel didn't flood. Of > > course, I didn't think about what would happen if the rest of the > > city did. > > > > Every March, we celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the Irish Channel. > > Before the > > parade at 1:00 PM, Chris Williams and I went to an Irish Catholic > > church > > down the street, another hardy survivor of Katrina. > > > > http://www.400tx.com/2006-11.html > > > > We lost a lot down here, but many of our churches from earlier > > centuries are > > on high ground and built to last an abomination of desolation. It > > was nice > > to sit in one and feel like things were, for a moment, back to normal. > > > > Jeffery Smith > > New Orleans, LA > > http://www.400tx.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Brings words and photos together (easily) with > > PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Jeffery