re: What was Katrina like?

at the time I was in my last year of pharmacy school at Xavier... I was working at Lindy Boggs Medical on Jeff Davis, too, and was planning on going in to work for the hurricane...

my mom and girlfriend at the time (who is now my wife) would NOT let me... they made me get the hell out of dodge...

good thing too, because that was one of the hospitals that they had to airlift patients out of after the fact....

my apartment got ruined when the roof was torn off (I lived on the 3rd floor), but I didn't have much of anything anyway, so as far as personal loss, I wasn't affected that much, but it was still a very impactful experience after we had returned to school and the city... one I will never forget...