The Hurricane Katrina crisis began for Bruneau on Monday, August 29th, shortly after the storm had passed through. A young woman lay dead in the middle of the 1900 block of Jackson Avenue. Her skull was crushed, and a fallen street light, blown down by the ninety-five-mile-an-hour winds, lay beside her. Along Jackson Avenue, people were emerging from shotgun shacks into a world of smashed oak trees and downed power lines. Some of them knew the woman. She had gone out during the storm to buy drugs.

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The small black one is great.
- tom moody 1-02-2006 7:19 pm [add a comment]

thanks i agree
- bill 1-02-2006 7:30 pm [add a comment]

i concur
- mark 1-02-2006 9:20 pm [add a comment]

i just reread this moving new yorker essay on the NOPD. worth looking into if you havent read it yet.
- bill 1-14-2006 8:34 pm [add a comment]

here are 4 new orleans talk of the town essays from margaret l knox and dan baum's website.


- bill 1-14-2006 8:40 pm [add a comment]