The Spirit of 2005: Hurricane Katrina

Katrina isn't a bright topic, but it DID happen this day in 2005. It's also hard to talk about it sometimes without bringing up politics.

The truth is Katrina affected a lot of things: it changed the face of Louisiana and Texas forever. While New Orleans is a half-abandoned place today, it did affect other places. When people got out of New Orleans, they went to new places, and took their culture with them. Here in College Station, Texas, we got a good Cajun restaurant (Crazy Cajun's) and new residents. The children of said residents went to much better schools.

When I went to Louisiana a few months later(!), much of the destruction was visible. You can play along in Google Earth right now, and watch as roofs become blue with tarps (there were a lot of blue tarps, likely government-issue). Visit New Orleans (29.972297,-90.025846) on August 30th 2005 to see the flooding, or this part of Lake Charles (29.972297,-90.025846) to see wrecked boats.