![]() ![]() ![]() After endless days of attempting to learn the fate of family and friends and trying to adjust to displacement, the scope of personal loss became clearer. Later, the surrealism of watching so much death, suffering, and destruction in my own hometown-unfolding live on television over several weeks-made clear that the vacation would not end any time soon. But as I drove out of town it was hard to shake the feeling that this might be the “big one,” the storm that would fill the bowl and drown a special culture. ![]() We would return home after a couple of “vacation days,” and everything would quickly be back to normal. ![]() Like most New Orleanians who fled Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, I thought that the evacuation would be nothing more than a soon forgotten inconvenience. ![]()
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