after the hurricane

My Totyota Camry was stolen one year and one day after I had purchased it. It was known to be the model most likely to be stolen. To prove "them" I was not moved, went back and bought immediately another Camry.
Is New Orleans as steadfast? If they had money?

in hurricanes

gentrification

Paris brûle-t-il?? No, it is the suburbs. La Cité Lumière has lost it's taste for revolution.

in politics of anarchy in Paris

Maybe suburb is a bad choice to translate - too many apartmentent houses? projects?

fit to serve

From the Atlantic
Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life, and if he were alive today, his condition would be treated as a "character issue"—that is, as a political liability. His condition was indeed a character issue: it gave him the tools to save the nation

Due to his depression he could see the objective reality with a clearer eye. Maybe I know something on this?

disasters