re: What was Katrina like?

I don't want to talk about actual storm stories.

But something that hit me the other day:

I'm was talking with my fiancé about having kids. She was taking about her collection of old books in the attic and stuff she saved for her kids one day and I realized I don't have anything to give them. No hand-me-downs, no children's books my mom used to read me, no picture books from my grandparents or family, no old crib, no mobiles or anything. No old toys or stuffed animals. Nothing. We lost all that.

It's amazing that it's been 10 years and my family and I still have to measure time with before and after Katrina language sometimes.

Someone will say "I can't find that box" or "where are the home videos or photo albums" , etc... and we have to think for a second and remember if those items even exist anymore. Usually they don't. So we say oh that was pre-katrina and we move on.