# @nolanews on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMNWKAGvbYm
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32500356-nolanews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-17T12:18:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NOLA.com (@NOLAnews) — https://gondola.cc/NOLAnews

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In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Chris Rose’s column in The Times-Picayune gave voice to the grief, frustration, anger and absurdity of a battered New Orleans. ⁠
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He filed front-line dispatches from broken streets and his own frayed psyche, eventually collecting those dispatches in the best-selling book “1 Dead in Attic.”⁠
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Even as he shouldered the burden of a city’s collective trauma – thousands of readers reached out to him – he was bedeviled by alcohol, depression, anxiety and an addiction to prescription painkillers.⁠
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He left the paper in 2009, then bounced around to other local media outlets. He hosted a French Quarter walking tour. He waited tables. And he drank – a lot.⁠
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In 2021, following multiple hospitalizations and a near-fatal crisis in a Kenner motel, he was diagnosed with end-stage cirrhosis. He’d nearly succeeded in drinking himself to death.⁠
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Faced with mortality, he disappeared. But we found him. ⁠
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Read the full story from Keith Spera by clicking the link in our bio. ⁠
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#hurricanekatrina #katrina #chrisrose #journalist #neworleans #nola #hurricane #lawx #weather⁠
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