3 years ago Katrina made its landfall not far from New Orleans. Soon the levies failed and water rushed onto the streets of the poorest districts of not the richest city in the USA.
I remember everything as if it had happened just yesterday. Mandatory evacuation was called for for the first time in the city’s history. Contraflow plan opened roads only in one direction, out of town. Rows of cars move slowly. There’s impatience and fear, questions and confusion in people’s eyes.
When power and TV were back in the evening on the 29th in Baton Rouge the first thing we saw were New Orleans flooded streets. It was unbelievable. Then Superdome roof leaked. And no one could possibly say how soon they would be able to return. Only a few months later some could return to the least affected areas.
