PREVIOUSLY ON WHEN THE WIND TURNED: Chapter Four
As Katrina’s outer bands clawed across New Orleans, the Rosenfeld family fled to the gym at St. Genevieve of the Sacred Heart — a makeshift shelter where fear, heat, and uncertainty pressed in from every side.
Up at Ochsner, Dr. Jeremy Rosenfeld fought through an unending stream of trauma cases, then was urgently deployed to devastated Charity Hospital as conditions worsened.
Father and family separated by floodwaters, signal failures, and a city on the brink — each trying to survive the night that refused to end.
CHAPTER FIVE: THE THIN HOURS
ST. GENEVIEVE GYM (SHELTER) / Just Before Dawn
The gym has fallen into the kind of quiet that only exists after fear has wrung itself out.
Cots lined in rows. Soft breathing. The low hum of borrowed generators.
Somewhere far off, a baby whimpers and is soothed with the slow, rocking patience of a mother who hasn’t slept in twenty hours.
Frankie sits upright on her cot, knees drawn to her chest, Maisie curled warm and small against her hip.
She doesn’t close her eyes.
She can’t.
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