The tourist infrastructure is standing up well and will rebound before the rest of the city, ... the great issue is when the city will have basic services back to manage visitors. We will all work hard to make sure the time frame is pushed as early as possible, but only if public safety and basic human issues have been addressed.
It's all about opportunity.
In New Orleans, people live for food and it's going to be one of the first things as people come back.
When you spend $27,000 to send your child to Kingswood-Oxford, you are sending them for one reason only - to prepare them for the next level of education. That's it. So, our expectation is that our children have to compete for the same spots at the same schools.
The really positive thing long-term is, the core of our infrastructure of the $5 billion to $8 billion tourism industry remained intact, ... As odd as it may sound right now, we are optimistic that this recovery is not only going to happen, its going to happen well and we're going to have a great city going again.
The interior will require considerable cleaning and renovation.
It's like a big hand came down and protected historic buildings.
Only the next few weeks will determine whether tourism will begin rebounding in late October or early November, or whether it is pushed into early next year.
When you see estimates of New Orleans not getting power back or water flowing for six or eight months, that is not the part of the city where tourists go.
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