a ruined city

with bodies piling up in the streets of port-au-prince, it's hard to think about the city itself with virtually every major landmark destroyed---begun in 1882, the cathedral was the tallest building in the city, so that it was impossible to get lost in the city---it may be reconstructed but it won't be restored---likewise the presidential palace, which was designed in 1912 by a haitian architect and completed in 1920---what a mess----at least the heart of new orleans survived intact