Remembering New Orleans
One year ago this weekend
Sara and I were finishing up our honeymoon, escaping New Orleans just before a storm hit.
We'd learned a lot over the course of our stay there and had seen how the city had been built to withstand (and rebuild after) storm after storm.
Exactly one year later, New Orleans is getting slammed with a category 5 hurricane, possibly the most destructive in US history. I was absolutely unaware until Wil sent his mojo their way tonight. Good luck New Orleans. Here's hoping everyone and all the wonderful history are still there in the aftermath.
"This is going to quickly go from a weather story to one of the biggest news stories in the world, certainly the biggest either of us has ever covered... Everyone's saying "I hope I'm wrong" when talking about this storm. The truth is that we've dodged this bullet so many times before, this is going to be the one." -WWL TV, streaming live hereWikipedia's quickly evolving entry on Hurricane Katrina...conditions are already deteriorating along portions of the central and northeastern Gulf Coast and will continue to worsen through the night. Maximum sustained winds are near 160 mph with higher gusts. Katrina is a category five hurricane.
