One Year Later: Remembering Hurricane Katrina

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Governor Haley Barbour and his wife Marsha embrace while viewing the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Gov. Barbour has been given credit for superior leadership during the wake of our nation's largest national disaster.

On this the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's historic landfall on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans, La., I would like to share some selected posts from my previous college-era blogging venture, BLOGregory (pronunciation: BLAH-gre-GUH-ree), which incindentally can still be found at blogregory.blogspot.com.

The following are links to the stories I wrote or "borrowed," starting with the day before landfall and ending with the recovery from Katrina. Although it seems morbid at times to go back and relive the devastation that was Hurricane Katrina, it is increasingly important to remember the travesty and to never forget the families affected by this monster storm.

Selected posts from BLOGregory.com: August 28, 2005 - September 12, 2005:

Hurricane Katrina Headed for New Orleans
Remembering Hurricane Camille
Barbour Blamed for Katrina
Run on Gas in Mississippi
What it Means to Miss New Orleans
Let There Be Light in the Big Easy
Mayor Nagin, Governor Blanco to Blame
MSU vs. Tulane Moved to Shreveport
Beauvoir Still Stands
French Quarter to Reopen in 90 Days
Recovering from Katrina: Better Than Ever

While there is still a lot of work left to do, progress is being made. It will take time, patience, and the hard work of the entire nation to overcome this tragedy, but nevertheless, we will prevail.

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