re: 14 years ago today

I was a senior at LSU at the time and will never forget what it did to Baton Rouge...

-cell phone towers being down + so many people were in BR caused cell phones to work very sporadically. We quickly realized texting worked better than calls (texting wasnt all that big back then)

- track and field made into a helipad and PMAC into a triage Reveille Link

- I lived at Campus Apartments on West Chimes near the old softball field. Helicopters were overhead constantly. We had people walking around at all hours of night- a couple of us stayed up on guard after all the looting and crime stories that were being spread

- not knowing if your classes were going to be cancelled from missing so many days and if LSU could absorb the extra students. I know many seniors who were concerned about graduating on time due to Katrina.

- the traffic... oh the traffic.

Obviously, this is nothing in comparison to what happened in New Orleans and the Mississippi coast, but it really did change Baton Rouge too.