C'est la vie

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Date: 13 September 2008 03:31:33

Local newspeople interviewed, a few years ago, a man who had been flooded out by a hurricane; a older, retired parish official mentioned him again today in a Hurricane Ike-related broadcast.

The official was down in the far south of the parish -- Pointe au Chenes, Isle de Jean Charles, one of the areas that always takes a big hit. He came upon a man, seated on the ground before his home -- on a thick layer of baked, caked post-flood mud --

"Well, Dardar, I see y'all came through another one by the hardest."

"Yah, Mr. Paul, but we still heah. We ain't goin' nowhar."

"You took so much water, an' your house has two feet of mud in it!"

"Mais, I'll shovel dat out."

Just then the Salvation Army came by with a hot meal for the residents and cleanup crews. The disheveled but grateful resident smiled up at the official, and stood up, dusting off his clothing.

"We got t'ree meals a day down heah, Mr. Paul. We gon' be OK."

An' yah know, chere, we will.