A timeout from the aftermath (Superdome reopens)

[Gman]

Sept. 25, 2006, 12:31AM
LOUISIANA SUPERDOME REOPENS
A timeout from the aftermath
As the Saints go marching back in, hope returns in form of Monday Night Football

By DAVID BARRON
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

N EW ORLEANS - It's still the first thing that catches the eye as you head eastbound on Interstate 10 into downtown New Orleans — the golden copper skin of the Louisiana Superdome, 27 stories tall, 680 feet in diameter, 52 acres from stem to stern.

It's where Sugar Ray Leonard made Roberto Duran plead "no mas," where Chris Webber called timeout, where Michael Jordan took flight, where Roger Staubach and Joe Montana and Brett Favre led teams to Super Bowl titles and, yes, where fans wore paper bags over their heads to mask their displeasure as their hometown favorites stumbled toward mediocrity.
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Just more than one year ago, it was a refuge of last resort for 30,000 people as Hurricane Katrina, and its aftermath, battered New Orleans. They watched as Katrina's winds pierced the stadium roof, peeling away its rubber membrane, and they slogged through 3 inches of backed-up sewage water on the stadium floor as they trudged toward buses taking them out of their ruined city.
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"In a way, this was our version of Ground Zero," said Doug Thornton, who has managed the building for nine years and watched as Katrina ripped it open Aug. 29, 2005. "It was what the world saw, and it is what people associate with Katrina and the disaster."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4211311.html

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Front and center in front of the country for 3 hours or so will be the one biggest reminder of Katrina, the Superdome. Hopefully ABC (!) will show lenghty footage of everything that has NOT been restored or rebuilt or still looks like Katrina just hit.

[Viking12]

1. I heard a sportsradio talk show host say..

"The game at the Superdome is wonderful forthe people of New Orleans, but I sure hope the TV crews show the devastation that still is the norm outside the dome. That we can rebuild a football stadium but not people's home is a travesty." I was really blown away becasue sports radio guys are often RW idiots. I hope the city gets the coverage this guy suggests is necessary.