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...Bourbon Street symbolizes much of what tourists knew to be New Orleans prior to Katrina. Outsiders thought of the city in terms of Mardi Gras beads and jazz, and this tourist hub was quick to provide the goods even after the storm. Though slightly less crowded now, the neon stretch still glows, populated by conventioneers and college students...
...service trip had been a shocking exposure to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, last Thursday night gave volunteers a glimpse of New Orleans as it had existed before Aug. 29. It provided insight into a city many of them hadn’t known before the storm...
...axed through attic roofs.Later that day in the neighborhood of Gentilly, Smith, looking down at the remains of her home, remembered what it had looked like before.“It was so nice,” she said.Few of the student volunteers had known New Orleans before the storm, though, and they were left to reconstruct mental images of what the Big Easy once had been.ANOTHER KIND OF TRAUMAResearch suggests that trauma is not confined to the immediate victims of a disaster. Relief workers and volunteers—the second wave of people on the scene?...
...Like New Orleans, Broadmoor’s population was 68 percent African American before the storm, and it suffered from the geographical segregation that had grown since the violent integration of public schools four decades ago. Broadmoor is a representative sliver of the Crescent City...
...Many residents said that Hurricane Katrina changed any goodwill Nagin had won for efforts to kill corruption in the city. Nagin was conspicuously absent from the public eye right when New Orleanians needed reassurance after the storm...