New Orleans

Just in case you’d forgotten about Katrina (I know you couldn’t have, but just in case), from my friend Rose:

Driving is still something which feels perilous. So many of us still have “Katrina brain”, a condition in which once perfectly adequate brain matter turns to mush. It makes driving pretty dodgy. Add to that roads full of potholes and gutted housing materials, traffic lights out of operation, heavy construction vehicles dominating the roadways, utility crews blocking the streets, and tens of thousands of tired, stressed people journeying back and forth from Orleans Parish to the surrounding areas each day, and it’s no wonder traffic accidents have quadrupled in some parishes here since Katrina.