Two decades is a long time. Long enough for a new generation to have grown up with no memory of that terrible day in 2005 when the floodwalls broke and water began rising so suddenly, so awfully and so devastatingly.
Yet for those who lived through it, Hurricane Katrina can feel like yesterday. It’s hard to forget the panic and the uncertainty. The surreal scenes of desperation and grief, playing out in familiar but also barely recognizable places. The smell of damp, moldy sheetrock and freezers that had been stuffed with seafood before the power went out.
The lives lost and forever changed…