I wasn’t going to post anything on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of Katrina, since I didn’t have anything particularly intelligent to say. But I thought of some things to offer today, so here we go. This American Life offered some amazing coverage in the aftermath of Katrina; it’s highly unusual for them to [...]
Year One: Rising Tide
Wrapping up, here’s one last memory of my first year of blogging. Hurricane Katrina sticks deeply in my mind. I posted about it quite a lot. There were several posts that quoted from the classic Rising Tide, such as this one that gave a historical view and this one that looked at New Orleans’ racial [...]
“I heard about the stunt you pulled down on Gravier Street…”
One more quote from Rising Tide and then I swear to God I’m going to stop. Editorial note: My justification for going back to this well again is this line from the Washington Post: In 2004, [New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin] told New Orleans magazine that his favorite book about the city was John Barry’s [...]
Muddy waters
One of the key factors of the inevitable post-tragedy assessment of Katrina will be how to address flood control as the area is rebuilt. On Meet the Press yesterday, Mike Tidwell, author of Bayou Farewell, began with “Why in the world is New Orleans below sea level to begin with?” As he pointed out, the [...]