[After Katrina, Man and Water in Louisiana](http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/after-katrina-man-and-water-in-louisiana/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body)

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It had been raining for a few days in New Orleans earlier this month, but Frank Relle was not complaining. “I like it when it rains in the summer,” he said. “It cools you and you don’t have that heat building up into the night.”