It shook a lot of us up. There's a lot of good people down here who want to see change.

Good people ... tend to shake our heads and smile when the latest City Hall outrage appears on the front page. But now the power of nature and the gross failure of those charged with building, inspecting and maintaining the wall between us and the water all around us, have left all New Orleans standing together at a fork in the road.

It's not going to change anything. Steve will still be dead and is not coming back to us.

I don't think one single thing like this is going to bring an epic type of change, but it is a continuation. It keeps an upbeat mood going.

You are hopeful and praying that there will be heavenly intervention, and that they will change their votes.

We feel very fortunate and are very happy to be 1-0. I don't think many people gave us a chance to be 1-0. But you lose everything you gained winning against an Oklahoma if you go and get beat by SMU.