I asked the guide for our disaster tour of New Orleans if so many stores were closed on Canal Street before Katrina. She said that there had been quite a few empty storefronts.
There are lots of empty store fronts where I live, too. There are banks, mortgage lenders, and tattoo parlors. But even long thriving bars have had a hard time making it.
As we drove up to Hattiesburg, I started thinking about how much of the US I'd visited over the last year or so. The spaghetti interchanges in San Antonio are right out of the Jetsons. But they seemed pretty much an exception. It seemed to me that there are stretches of highway in Mississippi, Louisiana, and east Texas where the bridges are held up by rust. I wonder how much longer they'll be usable--particularly with the weather. We encountered two massive explosions of rain, the type where it's impossible to see even the hood of your own car.
Although the roads are ok, I don't know how folks in west Texas and New Mexico will make it as the price of gas increases. There's not much to the towns. Again, lots of boarded up buildings. Even the churches were closed up. It's a long way between grocery stores and the land's not much good for farming. But the west has always had its ghost towns.
Where do the ghosts go? Trailers? We saw lots of trailers. Even some FEMA trailers. Most were gone from the FEMA settlement. Rows of satellite dishes were left.
There are lots of empty store fronts where I live, too. There are banks, mortgage lenders, and tattoo parlors. But even long thriving bars have had a hard time making it.
As we drove up to Hattiesburg, I started thinking about how much of the US I'd visited over the last year or so. The spaghetti interchanges in San Antonio are right out of the Jetsons. But they seemed pretty much an exception. It seemed to me that there are stretches of highway in Mississippi, Louisiana, and east Texas where the bridges are held up by rust. I wonder how much longer they'll be usable--particularly with the weather. We encountered two massive explosions of rain, the type where it's impossible to see even the hood of your own car.
Although the roads are ok, I don't know how folks in west Texas and New Mexico will make it as the price of gas increases. There's not much to the towns. Again, lots of boarded up buildings. Even the churches were closed up. It's a long way between grocery stores and the land's not much good for farming. But the west has always had its ghost towns.
Where do the ghosts go? Trailers? We saw lots of trailers. Even some FEMA trailers. Most were gone from the FEMA settlement. Rows of satellite dishes were left.
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