Previously on When the Wind Turned:
Francine (Frankie) Lemoine-Rosenfeld walked through her ruined home on August 30, the walls still holding the shape of the life she’d lived inside them.
Flashbacks pulled her back to August 28 — red beans on the stove, anxious glances toward a strange sky, the kids whispering fears to each other on AIM—AOL Instant Messenger.
A family sensing the wind was about to turn.
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WHEN THE WIND TURNED
Welcome to When the Wind Turned: A Katrina Family Story, a new serialized work from Heavy Crown Press. This is an exclusive weekly series (Wednesdays), available to paid subscribers, following one Louisiana family whose lives split apart—and then unexpectedly re-form—in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Chapter Two: Scrubbing In
August 29, 2005 — The Day Before the Levee Failures
JEREMY J. ROSENFELD, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Department of Surgery
Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans
Employee ID: 04728-FIC11
Clearance Level: Clinical – OR / ICU / Cath Lab
Status: Full-Time Staff Physician
Emergency Contact (Internal): Ext. 5567 (OR Desk)2
The halls of Ochsner always smelled faintly of bleach, steel, and something warmer—human fear trying not to show.
Today, the fear ran under everything like a low electrical hum.
Jeremy Rosenfeld’s shift was supposed to have ended hours ago.
Katrina’s outer bands were beginning to claw at the Gulf, dragging the pressure down in a way every experienced surgeon recognized.
The pattern was always the same:
A strange, eerie calm. Then the break.
A trauma page cut through the silence.
He was already moving.
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