With all the hyperventilating about Irene and the seeming disappointment of some people that it wasn't worse, it seems to me that people have over looked something New York has in common with New Orleans. And that is that both cities represent past eras and not the future. New York is not so far in decline as New Orleans but its day is over. Culturally and economically, New York represents a world that is passing. If Irene had hid harder than it did, it would have only hastened an ongoing decline.
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