Tourist attraction focuses on Katrina destruction...

[Zim Hosein]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- For $35 per person -- $28 for children -- a New Orleans company is offering bus tours of some of the city's most misery-stricken spots, including the Superdome, the Convention Center and neighborhoods ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Residents disagree over whether the tours are crass and morbid exploitation, or a good way to help people grasp the enormity of the disaster and keep public attention focused on New Orleans' plight.

The three-hour tours, called "Hurricane Katrina -- America's Worst Castastrophe," were announced last week by Gray Line New Orleans, with the first one set for January 4.

"It's a catastrophe that happened here and I just think that people need to be a little more considerate," said Nakia James, who lived in the devastated Ninth Ward.

But restaurant owner Roland Adams, tearing up the ruined oak flooring from his Lakeview living room, said it is great that tour guides have been told to explain the origins of the disaster, including deficient levees and other human errors.

"It's like an awareness program," he said.

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Tourist attraction focuses on Katrina destruction :Q

 

[waggy]

yea ithink thats kinda sick.

 

[Buck Naked]

Do they expect people to fly down to take the tour, or are they counting on the locals.

 

[ElFenix]

a 3 hour tour...

 

[DnetMHZ]

Sadly this doesn't surprise me.

 

[Cattlegod]

neat idea.

 

[DougK62]

That sounds like a great idea to me.

 

[Xyclone]

WTF? :Q

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
Sadly this doesn't surprise me.

Sadly, it was only a matter of time! 🙁

 

[Minjin]

I don't see anything wrong with it. How many people died tragically at the various battlefields that are visited every year?

Mark