Web Letters: Katrina, Eighteen Months Later

With rising sea levels, it is a total waste to rebuild New Orleans below even current water lines. We need to use this money more effectively.

John D. Froelich

Upper Darby, Pennsylvania

In your article you all you talk about is New Orleans, yes we are all sad about what happened there. Here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast we took Katrina head-on. It wasn't a levy that caused our destruction it was the actual storm and surge.

What sets us above NO is that we want to rebuild and be better than what we were before. Alot of the problem with NO is that they are not willing to go to extremes to become normal again. Don't get me wrong, I used to love NO, but look at it now. Even the places that weren't affected by the storm have become so full of crime, no one wants to go there. I don't blame the citizens to not want to return.

To my point now, when you talk about the Gulf Coast give the MS. part some credit. We are working hard to normalize the 6 most hit coastal counties. You reporters from afar have no clue to what has been going on here and only concentrating on NO. Of course, I know you'll do what you want, just my two cents.

I would definatly rather live here in MS than in "The Chocolate City."

Jay Tagert

Ocean Springs, MS