![]() In the glow of streetlamps, the skeins of rain glimmered like tarnished silver. Through hard experience, New Orleans had learned to respect the power of nature.ĭeucalion stepped out of the Luxe Theater without using a door, and stepped into a different district of the city, out of light and into the deep shadows under the boughs of moss-robed oak trees. The National Weather Service currently predicted landfall near Brownsville, Texas, but the storm track might change. ![]() For lack of customers, some of the clubs went dark and quiet.Ī hurricane was transiting the Gulf, well south of the Louisiana coast. ![]() Usually a late-night town where restaurants and jazz clubs cooked almost until the breakfast hour, New Orleans was on this occasion unlike itself. ![]() HALF PAST A WINDLESS MIDNIGHT, rain cantered out of the Gulf, across the shore and the levees: parades of phantom horses striking hoof rhythms from roofs of tarpaper, tin, tile, shingles, slate, counting cadence along the avenues. ![]()
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