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Article: A bad dream made real: nighttime in the city of New Orleans.
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- The Washington Post
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- August 26, 2007
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DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS
Reflections from a Drowned City
By Billy Sothern
Univ. of California. 346 pp. $21.95Two years ago this week
Hurricane Katrina smashed into the Gulf Coast. Coastal communities
from Louisiana to Alabama were pulverized, and the city of New
Orleans was awash, so devastated as to teeter on the brink of
destruction. You know the rest of the story, or at least you think
you do. The performance of government at all levels was abysmal,
except in a few smaller cities and towns where vigorous local
leadership brought about relatively effective reconstruction, and
interest elsewhere in the country gradually faded. With so much else
on our minds -- "American Idol," Paris Hilton, ...