But the diminishment of the Times-Picayune is also flavored with deep irony in an this era of digital disintermediation and newspaper defeat: the New Orleans daily heroically and effectively moved to the Internet to tell the story of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, providing an early model for online excellence.

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An insurance agent might tell the story of how someone whose home was devastated by a hurricane turned his life around after the place was rebuilt.

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His story is like the autobiography of a hurricane.

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