This week marks the ten your anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I was lucky enough to go to Louisiana a couple years after the storm with a group of friends from Kentucky to work on new homes being built in Plaquemines Parish. I am not qualified to speak about the storm or its aftermath except to say that we met some beautiful souls down there, and were definitely given more then we gave. Here are two stories I read in this weeks New Yorker that aptly comment on the the storm and the ten years since. Malcolm Gladwell's piece explores the social, and economic impact that being uprooted by the storm had on Gulf Coast residence. Sarah Broom's personal account is both beautiful and heart breaking. Do yourself a favor and read both!
High School football season starts soon, and no doubt the Plaquemines High Hurricanes (seriously) are practicing this week. The year we were there they were going to school in trailers and had unsettled living situations, but still won the state championship. It was an honor to meet one of the kids and his father that week, and be invited to the game that Friday night. If I remember correctly Plaquemines High returned the opening kickoff for six, and the place went crazy. I still get goose bumps just thinking about it.
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