[There are no fish swimming in Lakeview, and no bayou alligators, he said. The water bubbles with natural gas from broken mains and carries the detritus of a neighborhood to and fro. One neighbor refused to evacuate, and Hunter hasn't seen him. Still, he added, he hasn't found any corpses. At the Basin bar,] we'd sit there and solve all the world's problems, but with this, I just don't know where to begin, ... I don't know if this city will ever come back.

David Hunter