The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans
is not a Katrina story, it's a story of pre-Katrina in New Orleans.
For a long time, and especially since 9/11, Constance had been feeling claustrophobic in New York. We’d had two power blackouts downtown since 9/11, which served as reminders of how from one moment to the next you can be sucked from what you think of as your life into Disaster World. Constance had been wanting to go somewhere less vulnerable. So naturally we had gone someplace more vulnerable than Manhattan. I hadn’t quite realized that New Orleans was an island too.
By then I realized that moving to New Orleans was one of the stupidest things I had ever done.
Except for one thing. Despite the fact that we had to live in New Orleans, we were getting to live in New Orleans.
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