It's very early at this point to speculate about the future of the Dome and whether it can be repaired.

If you were to walk through it now you would say it's not that bad and could possibly be repaired. The thing you don't know is how many of those electrical panels and transformers have been damaged beyond repair and have to be completely replaced; the same thing for the plumbing. And we still don't know what we're going to find when we start tearing down that Sheetrock.

If you were to walk through it now you would say it's not that bad and could possibly be repaired.

It's unbelievable. All these big oak trees are just uprooted, everything is brown and the waterline is up to 7 feet on the house. It's like somebody dropped a nuclear weapon and just killed everything. There's not any sign of life. There's no greenery. It's bizarre. It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.

One guy asked me why we wouldn't just want to tear down the Dome because it harbors so many bad memories of the storm, but we had 30 years of good memories here before the hurricane. It could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans, something people could rally around.

I'm a little more encouraged after walking through it a second time.