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...abandoned houses are marked with crude red Xs, their windows spray-painted with the number of bodies found inside. The French Quarter and the Garden District lie dark and deserted, a wasteland of downed power lines, cars with flat tires, massive Spanish oaks toppled at their roots and scattered reminders of the city's former self--a cookbook open to a recipe for ham croquettes, strings of Mardi Gras beads. What little life remains in New Orleans is largely devoted to counting the dead, a task so vast and grim that even the city's coroner, Frank Minyard, doesn...
...chaos that followed, those who remained in the city absorbed the evacuation orders with a mix of resignation and rage. Tom Drummond, a bassist with the alternative rock band Better Than Ezra, performed on the CBS Early Show two days before Katrina hit. Although his home in the Garden District survived, his wife's new clothing store was looted in the hurricane's aftermath, only days after her fall collection had arrived. Drummond plans to tour while his wife stays with her family in McComb, Miss. "Got to go where I can be of some use and work," he says...
Susan Ebel NEW ORLEANS A private chef, she feels lucky that her 150-year-old Garden District home "never lost a pane of glass." She resisted the idea of evacuation and sees shortages of ice and coffee as a "Zen experience...
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...most appealing neighborhoods, New Orleans is already something better than any mere visionary idea. It's a city that people love precisely for its unrationalized flavor, for its freewheeling French Quarter and its elegant Garden District, both largely spared. But beyond the city known to tourists, it's also a place riven by class and race; of its 485,000 people, 67% are African American, many of them poor. The city they knew was already fraying at its foundation, its history crowded with a long line of buccaneers in public office offering dreams with one hand while pilfering with...