Previously on When the Wind Turned, CHAPTER THREE:
Francine (Frankie) Rosenfeld walked through the wreckage of her Uptown home on August 30, remembering the days before the levees failed — the unease, the heat, the way her children sensed danger before adults dared to name it.
Jeremy, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Ochsner, worked through the storm’s approach, scrubbing in again and again as Katrina’s edge brushed the city.
Jacob felt the sky tighten.
Noah monitored every warning.
Eve clung to Maisie and AIM messages from her father.
Now the storm has struck for real.
New Orleans is flooding.
Families huddle in shelters.
Hospitals plunge into crisis.
And the Rosenfelds — separated by water and obligation — brace for the moment everything changes.
Chapter Four
The Day The Water Came
PART I — JEREMY
(New Orleans, August 30, 2005 — early morning)
The storm has already begun tearing at the city by the time the call comes.
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