Apologies for the absence of posts: I’ve been on deadline since I got back from New Zealand, working as fast as I can to finish up two big projects before I head off to the U.K. on Tuesday.
In New Orleans, the crepe myrtles are in bloom and it’s too hot to go outside - mid 90s every day, with 90% humidity. The heat index today is 107 degrees.
And there’s this dismal report in The New York Times:
“As of late May, … there were still more than 30,000 families displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita spread across the country in apartments paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and another 13,000 families, down from a peak of nearly 18,000, marooned in trailer or mobile home parks, where hunger is so prevalent that lines form when the truck from the food bank appears … Hardly any of the 77,000 rental units destroyed in New Orleans have been rebuilt … Despite their longing, some evacuees are afraid to return; they must choose between formaldehyde-laced trailers and a city they view as contaminated, poorly protected from floods and more violent than ever before.”
Welcome home!
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