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It is Fat Tuesday! Happy Mardi Gras

by clorenz1 | February 20, 2007 at 10:39 am

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Happy Mardi Gras everyone. I added stories from the scene, a highlight on our own FluxRostrum, and even a piece on the web community and their links to Mardi Gras. Anyone have any beads? Photographs will work as well. The celebration has grown this year, however, while it is time to celebrate, the work is far from done, and many promises have not been kept by federal, and state officials. The resurrection continues in NOLA...

Crowds roared enthusiastically for the Zulu parade floats on Fat Tuesday and jazzman Pete Fountain led a band of gypsy musicians as New Orleans celebrated Mardi Gras in style, a year and a half after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Gregory Scott and his wife, daughter and three sons were among scores of people who set up grills along the St. Charles Avenue parade route before dawn to claim a prime parade-watching spot.

Couldn't find some of the songs I really wanted so the above will do.

I hope everyone marching with St. Anne's has a great Mardi Gras Day! I wish I were there.

Let's hear it for the people of New Orleans who work each day to restore our great American treasure....rest and enjoy today.

And here's a little video I took inside dba at LAST year's Mardi Gras....

The Suttons were among the crowd in town for the final weekend leading up to Mardi Gras, a crowd that merchants, hotel operators and others felt would exceed the 700,000 the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau said visited the city during the same time period last year.

But those 700,000 will be leaving town after Fat Tuesday, and as CBS News correspondent Tracy Smith reports, many of the city's permanent residents could soon be following.

While we wish everyone a joyful Fat Tuesday out there, make sure to remember the real residents down in New Orleans who are still struggling to put their lives back together.

Following Chinese New Year on Sunday and President’s Day on Monday, the week of holidays continues with Mardi Gras! Also known as Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day, Mardi Gras is the final day of the Carnival season. Tomorrow will be Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, so all partying and temptations must be removed, or consumed, by midnight. Here are six ways to celebrate online.

While last year's festivities were scaled down as New Orleans began its recovery from the devastating hurricane, but this year 30,000 hotel rooms are ready for the big Mardi Gras weekend, and most of them were filled. Officials say the crowds could exceed the 700,000 who visited the city last year, the first Mardi Gras after the storm hit.