Twenty years later, Hannibal Nicholls recounts what was going on in his life toward the end of August 2005.
He was in college and was engaged to his fiancée. Then suddenly, he was in the Orleans Parish Prison complex, fearing for his life as floodwater began creeping into one of its buildings.
“We’re literally looking at how much time we have left before we suffocate, drown and die because the water’s coming up, and no one’s getting us out,” he said…