But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however—the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a party.
That could have been taken verbatim out of a recent newspaper article from anywhere in the world. But it was published in October, 2004.
Maybe it isn't so astounding after all. It has long been known not a to be a matter of
if, but
when.
Gone With the Water
