Tag: Hurricane Katrina

Stormy Weather

  Everyone has been posting storm memories this week. Ten years ago tomorrow, Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast. I’ve seen friends posting about Hurricane Andrew that struck southern Florida with a vengeance some 23 years ago this past week. And in Virginia, there was Hurricane Camille, which hit the Gulf Coast in 1969 first …

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Katrina: Nine Years Later

“The guy who runs this building I’m in, emergency management, he’s responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in a St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, ‘Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?’ [starting to cry] And he said, ‘Yeah, Mama, somebody’s coming to get you. Somebody’s coming to …

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