The weather was one more punishment to a population fading into the malaise that inevitably follows an early jolt of post-disaster optimism and solidarity, people’s fight ebbing in the face of mounting evidence that rebuilding and repairing would take years, and what was lost could never fully be regained. Whereas the rest of the country had largely moved on, people in New Orleans still spoke of Katrina every day, and not a day went by without the once-innocent girl’s name appearing on the Times-Picayune’s front page, often within stories recounting an outrageous abuse or failure of official
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