Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
The further east you go on the upper Gulf Coast, the worse it gets. So New Orleans makes Houston look like Phoenix.

We left NC, spent night 1 in Memphis then 3 days in Houston then 3 days in the Bayou & NO. You are right , I was comparing it to here in NC...next time I go, I am bypassing NO and going to the Bayou....I was there last 2 weeks before Katrina...I am Acadien so I have a lot if history in that area going back to 1755.