"When Government Shrugs: Lessons of Katrina"
A year has passed since Hurricane Katrina turned New Orleans into the closest thing this country has seen to Pompeii. Although FEMA trailers dot more of the landscape than they did a few months ago, as homeowners have begun to dribble back, at least 60 percent of the city seems unoccupied. It will never be the same. Most of the markers of familiar life, the daily round, swept away, never to return. The beautiful Louis Armstrong song “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?” used to give me a little rush of wistful, sweet nostalgia. Now it makes me sob....
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Posted on August 24, 2006 in News Elsewhere by Mel17
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