Modem Butterfly
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:32 AM
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Times-Picayune Evacuating - e-mail from my partner |
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"Game over, I think. Tuesday, August 30, 2005 T-P EVACUATING Tuesday, 9:40 a.m.
The Times-Picayune is evacuating it's New Orleans building.
Water continues to rise around our building, as it is throughout the region. We want to evaucate our employees and families while we are still able to safely leave our building.
Our plan is to head across the Mississippi River on the Pontchartrain Expressway to the west bank of New Orleans and Jefferson Parish. From there, we'll try to head to Houma.
Our plan, obviously, is to resume providing news to our readers ASAP. Please refer back to this site for continuing information as soon as we are able to provide it.
-30-
This was posted less than an hour ago. And I can tell from looking that an old hand wrote it; possibly a senior editor.
That "-30-" at the end is an old, old journalist convention that is rarely seen any more. This is apparently serious. The Central Business District and French Quarter were about the only two areas in the city untouched by floodwater, and now both are getting some.
Say g'bye to N'yawlins.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:34 AM
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1. Holy Crap! I worked a project at the Times-Picayune in the late 90's. |
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They had the best employee cafeteria of any newspaper I got assigned to. I know right where their building is. This is so tragic. New Orlenas is such a beautiful city in so many ways. My heart is breaking for all those who grew up there or formed an attachment in other ways.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:38 AM
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3. My partner was a free-lance photojournalist after the military |
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He did some work for them in the early and mid-90's. We talked briefly of him going to Tulane for graduate school.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:42 AM
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6. I have a friend that worked there during that time |
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He won a Pulitzer on a story he worked on back then. I copied this and IM'd him the email because I thought he might be interested.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:42 AM
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7. Tulane. Another place for memories. |
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When I was a freshman at UGA, I went to New Orleans for Mardi Gras with 5 others in a conversion van. We slept in the van in the parking lot of the Howard Johnson's downtown just off Canal and took showers at Tulane by sneaking into their dorms.
I love New Orleans. I just want to cry right now.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:41 AM
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5. I think it means "end" |
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