Monday morning, August 25, 2005. A big storm was in the Gulf and they weren't sure where it was going. The schools were closed and I was sitting home watching the Weather Channel. During the few hours before landfall, it wobbled and looed like it was going to hit Bay St. Louis, MS. Of course, it was a big storm and the western side of it hit New Orleans.
I was watching the disaster unfold, with pictures of hundreds of school buses, flooded in a large parking lot. The TV went to our governor, Kathleen Blanco, who was crying on national TV and the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, who was deflecting blame.
I remember telling Belle, "Well, there goes New Orleans."
One of the most iconic images to come out of that tragedy was the fellow stealing beer, who we all called Looter Man.
He's got it going-on. Waist deep in flood water with a plastic tote of stolen beer. He's going to a party.
It's been 20 years and I don't know if New Orleans has fully recovered. The governor died of cancer a few years ago, ad Ray Nagin is out of prison. I understand that he is in New Orleans, still trying to deflect blame
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