No, We’re Not Nervous. Are We?
Three years ago Katrina visited New Orleans and left nothing but devastation in her wake. Today residents are preparing to welcome Gustav. It’s not a hurricane yet but by the time he passes over the warm Caribbean waters he could be a level 3 hurricane.
“The mix of genuine nonchalance and real unease with which people here greet the long-distance threat of a hurricane is hard for outsiders to understand.”
“It is an apparent contradiction that speaks to the Russian-roulette life of New Orleans, difficult to compress into overheated news reports and yet part of this city’s fragile texture. There is no choice: both sentiments must be entertained at once.”
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