re: What was Katrina like?

Left Saturday evening and ended up in Linden, TX (small town with a population of about 2k). The residents there came together to donate clothes, toiletries and other things for any refugees at the hotel I stayed at. Hotel manager wouldn't accept money for the room and the residents paid for our meals. Incredible hospitality. Ended up seeing my street on a news channel and knew it was going to be bad, came home to about a 4 ft water line.