BATON ROUGE — Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina took the lives of thousands and destroyed homes, forcing New Orleans residents to leave the city they called home.
New Orleans East native Gavin Richard was about to start his sophomore year at Tulane University in the fall semester of 2005. Hurricane Katrina was projected to make landfall in late August, causing Richard and his family to evacuate to Dallas.
“We stayed in a hotel in Dallas for two days, thinking we would come back. How little did we know,” Richard said…