in back of the line sharon paul, the diabetic, and she looked at her friends and said the we know we have water in new orleans? i am here in new orleans which feels different isn't talking about this book in other places at the risk of a bad and you're hearing too much, deluged with the coverage of matt lowry is that i would argue what has been going on is it is a replay of the first month, most of the attention is being paid to those first horrific days, sad stories, important stories to share and joy, heartbreaking stories, i think a really interesting story, a more important story for new orleans and maybe the rest of the country is more what happened afterwards and there is up moment for a journalist, historian, anyone studying, things were crazy, crazy. i am sure some of you had people speaking openly about using the storm to make new orleans a less for city, we are going to change the city demographically, 68% black city at the time, change it politically, we the uptown whales are weaving, governor ray nagin called, the people who really were helping to run new orleans had a pl