Waiting Out Hurricane Isaac in New Orleans - The Daily Beast

 Katy Reckdahl, one of our finest writers, tells how it is. "Rance Jefferson, Sr., my neighbor across the street, said he knew a woman who’d moved here after Katrina. For her, staying wasn’t an option, he said. She packed up her car and drove out of Isaac’s reach. He had tried to convince her otherwise, he said. “I told her, ‘You might want to experience a hurricane. That’s what we do.’”


Waiting Out Hurricane Isaac in New Orleans - The Daily Beast