On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 07:13:30 -0700, chuckgould.chuck wrote:



. IIRC, it took a couple of weeks for the water to recede to
where the poor people could get off on their own.

Only to be conscripted to rebuild the levees, while Hoover, "The Great
Humanitarian" becomes President. I wonder how many of those blacks, or
their descendants, ended up in New Orleans.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flood/t...timeline2.html