2022 Hurricane Season - Make your family plans on a Blue-Sky day.

I dont talk about Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that much. I usually refer to them as the 2005 storms, personal. On August 29th, I remember most of the media reporting we dodged a bullet all afternoon. Before I turned in that evening, I watched a few minutes of CNN coverage. Jeanne Meserve and her videographer were reporting live somewhere in New Orleans. She commented that they noticed water rising from where it was earlier in the evening. The desk anchor even new that did not sound right. He said he would get his producer to check that out. My last thoughts that evening before I turned in was wondering where that water was coming from. The lesson is, until you know, you dont know.

I did a lot of work and interviews in the weeks, months and years after the storms. The stories of survival during landfall and the weeks that followed still run through my mind when the NHC names an Invest.

Bless everyone on the Louisiana Gulf Coast.


Hurricane Katrina graphic provided by NOAA.

Tom M.