Tag: hurricane katrina

These are posts that took place mostly during my evacuation in August/September 2005 following Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent failure of the New Orleans levee system. There’s also some other posts here and there that reference Katrina or it’s physical, emotional or economic aftermath.

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MIA, I know.

I haven’t been posting much here lately. Not because I haven’t had much to say, but more that I’ve just been overwhelmed lately and it’s been hard to sit down and formulate a cohesive entry. …

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Obligatory Katrina Anniversary Entry

Being a ‘blogger’ I know I should be moved to post a long entry about how it’s been exactly two years since the windy/floody thing, punctuated with a few witty comments illustrating how so much …

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Drunken Post, 5:04AM, Yadda Yadda

Went out tonight for what seems like the first time in a few weeks. Normally going a couple of weeks without getting trashed isn’t much to blog home about, but this is New Orleans post …

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Report blasts FEMA deals

Washington | FEMA exposed taxpayers to significant waste – and possibly violated federal law – by awarding $3.6 billion worth of Hurricane Katrina contracts to companies with poor credit histories and bad paperwork, investigators say. …