Baton Rouge Advocate
Published: Aug 27, 2006
On the evening before Katrina’s landfall, I decided to create a blog to document live coverage of the hurricane and to pass the time while waiting out the storm. While I never imagined that Katrina would go on to become the worst catastrophe, or set of catastrophes, in U.S. history referring to the storm itself, the flooding of New Orleans and the mismanagement of the emergency), I somehow sensed it was important to document it in real time. As it turns out, living through the disaster and blogging about it has been the most insightful, meaningful and inspiring experience of my life. Continue here...
