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COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
HURRICANE KATRINA
Nicholas Lemann talks with Daniel Cappello about the fate of his home town, New Orleans.
From 1992, James B. Stewart on his Illinois home town, threatened by floodwaters from the Mississippi.
From the front porch of his rather grand house on South Carrollton Avenue--which had suddenly become Pontchartrain lakefront, even if the lake here was a foot deep and toxic--the world looked pretty damned stupid to H. J. (Pepper) Bosworth, Jr., last Thursday. Not so much the lack of electricity in the ninety-degree torpor, or even the desultory procession of loot-laden shopping carts that passed, grim parodies of Mardi Gras parades. No, what seemed dumb, plain bad science, was all that talk that New Orleans needed to be evacuated because a storm surge could have put all of it, even the relatively elevated French Quarter, under twenty feet of water.
"That's just lies," Bosworth said, shifting a heavy Ruger pistol in his...
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