re: What was Katrina like?

Was down the river near the lake with work people. We monitored the storm and decided early Sunday morning tgfo. I went by my parents house on ponchatoula and then grabbed my clothes. Took back roads to br and avoided all traffic. Rode out storm in br, woke up Monday and started hearing charter of the levees being broke. Somehow made it back to ponchatoula after a couple of days. Ended up cutting trees and cleaning up around my parents property for a week. I worked at a food warehouse that delivered frozen and dry food to schools, restaurants and state contracts. It was all hands on deck from the time I got back until the next year. I remember going into the freezer at northshore high school a couple months after and it still had that terrible smell.