"Grateful"

I know this is a small thing but because there is no other new information in this statement besides the fact that the mayor is "grateful" to the krewes, then we have to consider that was the entire point of saying anything.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said she is "grateful" that Carnival krewes have been willing make adjustments to their routes to avoid the site of the Hard Rock Hotel collapse.

At the city's annual King's Day celebration Monday at Gallier Hall, marking the beginning of Carnival, Cantrell said krewes have been "overwhelmingly supportive" of the decision to avoid the collapsed hotel at Canal Street and North Rampart Street.

"I’m very grateful to the krewes being receptive to the changes. It wasn’t a battle to fight, it was one we could all agree to," Cantrell said.

But why wouldn't they be supportive of this? Can you imagine a krewe captain insisting on running a great big carnival parade and the noise and crowd and mess that comes with it directly into the shadow of an unstable husk of a building which, as of this writing, is still so dangerous that search teams can't remove the bodies that are trapped there? Well, okay, actually maybe some of these entitled individuals would insist on it. But that's all the more reason not to be "grateful" to them.  There's a hazard there. Just plan around it.

This is an announcement that they are going to plan around it. But it could have been saved for when they told us what the new plan actually was.  So we have to assume there was a reason the mayor wanted to get into the paper expressing deference and gratitude to the krewe captains for some reason. It's weird.

Anyway, hey, it is Carnival Time now.  Gonna need to take a minute after the Saints loss yesterday to decide if we're ready.