“The walls were covered with mold. Blue-green spores were everywhere. The floorboards were warped; some had come loose.”
Twenty years since Katrina. Clint Smith writes about returning to his family home in Gentilly and finding everything destroyed by mold and water. Survivors still measure time by the storm. Before Katrina. After Katrina. New Orleans never fully recovered. The city rebuilt its tourist districts. The neighborhoods that made it a real place got left behind.