The French Quarter is high and dry and we feel it has good electricity capabilities. But since it is so historic, we want to double and triple check before we fire up all electricity in there to make sure, because every building is so close that if a fire breaks out we won't lose a significant amount of what we cherish in this city,
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Hopefully we won't have another event, ... It's like your washing machine. First, Katrina was kind of the wash cycle. Rita seems to be the rinse cycle. I hope we get the opportunity to hang on the line and dry and not go through the spin cycle.
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