Twenty years ago Katrina tried to wash us away!

Just as most Americans remember where they were
on 9/11, those of us living on the Gulf Coast remember
the fear and concern that enveloped our region twenty
years ago on August 29th. A lady named Katrina changed
many of our lives. In looking back, many Louisianans
felt that maybe New Orleans really was a
city that care forgot, and the whole Gulf Coast
was thrown in for good measure. This human
tragedy has haunted the Bayou State over the
past decade as even today the rebuilding effort
continues.
Two days before Katrina attacked, I was hosting
a local radio program in Baton Rouge and
was interviewing a key official with the National
Hurricane Center in Miami. “Katrina has turned
in a much more northerly direction, with a beeline
for New Orleans. We are saying a possible Hurricane
4, and you folks are going to have some big problems up
there.”