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Subject: [Leica] Jeffery PAW - Week 11 - Our Return To Normalcy
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Tue Mar 14 00:11:00 2006
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I'm glad to hear that you and Chris manage to stay in touch.

Thank-you for these shots. I hope you did get a feeling of things were
normal again, at least for a few minutes.

Daniel


On 3/14/06, 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
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