Tropical Storm Isaac may be what New Orleanians need to scratch that seven-year itch. Perhaps our regard for Katrina has begun to wane. Seven years after her passionate visitation, our eyes manage to slip past her wrath, her strength and enormity, and her ability to change forever the people whose lives she touched.
Maybe the images of the gaping maw of toppled concrete I-walls, the water that seemed to flow forever, the tortured faces reaching toward rescuers - all those things that humbled us mercilessly and exposed all of our vulnerabilities - maybe those things would have faded a little more if we had made it through one more year without a healthy reminder.