The Louisiana Cultural Economy is back.It had simply taken a back seat to a driving force named Katrina.
On Friday, hundreds are in New Orleans to participate in Mitch Landrieu’s Cultural Economy Summit which was last held a mere four days before Hurricane Katrina.
At the time of the second summit, little did any know that the winds and the waters would destroy so much that was being built in Southern Louisiana.The local movie industry was in full boom.The music industry was playing up a storm.
While there is clear evidence that the economy is returning to New Orleans, the irony cannot be mistaken.Katrina had no culture and no good manners.
Yet, we still have a way to go but are swimming with the floods of determination.Last year, it would have been impossible to put on this type of summit.
According to Michael Kane of Mt. Auburn Associates who provided an action plan during the event said ”while there are various sectors that are definitely returning and others that need more help, there is no loss of determination from the people here and from so many outside of the area who want New Orleans and Louisiana to succeed”.
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> North Dakota News
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> This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of North Dakota state after a snowstorm.
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> WEATHER BULLETIN
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> Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic event--- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44 inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to tens of thousands.
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> FYI:
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> George Bush did not come.
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> FEMA did nothing.
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> No one howled for the government.
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> No one blamed the government.
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> No one even uttered an expletive on TV.
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> Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
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> Our Mayor did not blame George Bush or anyone else.
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> Our Governor did not blame George Bush or anyone else, either.
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> CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snowstorm.
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> Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.
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> No one asked for a FEMA Trailer Home.
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> No one looted.
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> Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.
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> Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.
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> No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.
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> No Sean Penn, No Barbara Streisand, No Hollywood types to be found.
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> Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
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> Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.
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> The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny.
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> Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families.
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> Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.
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> We fired up wood stoves and broke out coal oil or Coleman lanterns.
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> We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".
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> We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for "sittin at home" checks.
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> Even though a Category 5 blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
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> "In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."
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> It does seem that way, at least to me.
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> I hope this gets passed on.
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> Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living.
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