re: What was Katrina like?

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She was truly an amazing storm.

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I've come to realize that I will speak of Katrina (and her bitch sister Rita) the way my parents and grandparents spoke of Camille.

Katrina was, quite simply, one of those storms that you'd always heard about, but never experienced... until she was here. She was the next catastrophic storm after Camille that would lay waste to a massive piece of land and cause staggering amounts of human suffering, and her sister wasn't following that far behind. We thought we knew what a bad storm was after Andrew, but we had no damned clue how bad a bad storm could be.

But, unless you lived to see Camille yourself, you never fully understood what "Camille" actually meant in terms of destruction and human suffering until you'd lived to see Katrina (and her bitch sister Rita).

What strikes me most about that hurricane season is that two storms absolutely fricking destroyed both our Eastern side and our Western side. Yet both of those groups of people that survived buried the dead, cleared the rubble, and moved forward. No storm was going to beat them. Beat them down, yes, but beat them, no.