Going back to New Orleans
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Near the corner of Chef Menteur and Alcee Fortier Boulevard, where for 30 years Vietnamese lettering has replaced English on the roadside shop marquees, businessman Huang Tran, 49, surveyed the damage with nervous dismay on Friday.
“I feel very down,” he said. “It’s so terrible. Before I came back I thought I could rebuild in a few weeks. Now I think it will take five or six months.”
Tran pointed to several of the storefronts in the block-long strip malls that line the intersection, each owned by a member of his immediate or extended family, all of them damaged. His younger sister owns the jewelry store, his wife’s older sister owns the pharmacy, and his older sister owns the Vietnamese ham factory, where, he said, the hundreds of pounds of meat had certainly spoiled.
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