Dispatch From New Orleans

When you live in New Orleans . . .

When you live in New Orleans . . . you hope and pray the coming hurricane will miss your beloved city, not really thinking about how it will wreak havoc on someone else's. (Read the latest.)

When you live in New Orleans . . .

When you live in New Orleans, or anywhere in the path of hurricanes, you think twice about your love of "leafy" neighborhoods. While you desperately need the shade of a big oak tree like this, you also have awareness that this tree could come crashing down in a big wind event. And there goes your house, and you if you're inside. The big tree issue is a definite quandary.