I got up this morning and was amazed that this clip is still pulling in viewers and creating a lengthy debate, but i think its getting a little off topic, so i have to chime in again. The question of whether or to rebuild is a mute point, and one that is only debated by people who have NOT taken the drive from Mobile, Alabama all the way to New Orleans along highway 90. This is a huge section of american coastline, it takes over 2 hours to drive it, now go take a sunday drive across town this afternoon and see hour far you can get in 2 hours. Again, this storm just grazed the troubled city with the levees and all the violence.
It makes me very frustrated to keep hearing the intelellectual/scientific discussion of why it should or should not be rebuilt by people sitting at there homes typing on their computers, in their black mold-free dens. Im sure the few poor bastards that are still huffing fumes in FEMA trailers are not part of this discussion. I wonder what they would have to say?
Yes i realize that the place is not the safestest place to live, hell, thay have alligator gars and poisonous snakes for chrissakes, But the fact is that this is home for some of these people and just need some storm-proof shelter for a while to get their shit back together, and guess what? A lot of people aren't coming back, so that makes the equation a lot easier to balance.
But here is a wacky anecdote about where you come from, and weather or not you may need some help some day- when i was down filming one group of volunteers had to return to their city of Nashville, why? because they didn't think rebuilding the coast (not just New Orleans please) was worth their time? no, it was because some tornadoes had just ripped though their city killing over 40 people. Bad stuff can happen anywhere folks, there is some data for you.
Any way sorry about spazzin out, its just seems like debating the issue to death is not the most effective way to spend a Sunday. Maybe spending the same about of time looking into where all that money went is more interesting/depressing. Or better yet, go take a 2 hour drive and use up some carbon credits.

okay... here is the new current link...
http://current.com/items/88862005_one_house_at_a_time_vers_2_0

thats all, thanks again everyone.

oops, its gone again... so there is actually a higher quality version sitting over, here....

http://captainhookup.com/onehouseupdate.html

i think the kids at current decided to knock it off-line and hit the bar.

oops, its gone again... so there is actually a higher quality version sitting over, here....

http://captainhookup.com/onehouseupdate.html

i think the kids at current decided to knock it off-line and hit the bar.

The clip was down for a minute, due to all the attention this site has brought to it, the folks at Current felt the use of U2 was a little risky, so i replaced the track with more Of Justin Sullivan's music from his album "Navigating By the Stars", which is a hauntingly prophetic vision that was written prior to the storm. He is also the front man of the seminal legends of Bradford UK, New Model Army, and again i have to thank him for the use of his incredible music here.

Hey there, i would just like to thank Xeni and Clayton for getting this clip up on this site. The traffic to the clip is huge, so thanks for watching, and debating. There are no right answers, but i can add that Pearlington is NOT New Orleans, and its not below sea level.