WAFB Channel 9, Baton Rouge, LA |Saints occupy more interest than Ida

Saints occupy more interest than Ida

By George Sells - bio | email

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WAFB) - A strange feeling was in the air Monday morning as winds picked up and clouds darkened in New Orleans, but most people chose to talk about the Saints and their perfect record.

"They remind me of that Sunday morning when we left for Katrina," said Trudy Green. "That's the way they look."

She just got back home to the Ninth Ward following the devastating storm. She pointed to the house the Brad Pitt crew was putting up for her on her old property, just a few hundred feet from the Industrial Canal. The group finances the project until the house is built, then the owner must pay a note on it.

A Canadian couple visited the lower Ninth Ward to touch the replacement for the levee wall that broke, killing so many people in a deluge of water. They said they were planning to visit Baton Rouge on Tuesday. Across the channel in the city, there's still slow recovery work in the midst of schools which may never be revived. In fact, private contractors may have been the only ones working, as Tropical Storm Ida slipped closer.

American Airlines cancelled its Tuesday morning flights out of New Orleans. Inbound flights from Chicago and St. Louis were cancelled Monday night. Surprisingly, most residents in and around the Ninth Ward were more focused on the New Orleans Saints than the storm churning in the Gulf of Mexico.

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