There will be hugsRemembering my role in KatrinaI’ve been reading the recent Hurricane remembrances that are popping up in the press with a certain “Man, that was an insane time in America” recollection. The stories of levees, police on bridges, and the images of…
REVISITING KATRINA: EVACUATIONTen years ago today I was evacuating New Orleans, first to Birmingham, then to Chattanooga. Here are a few poems I wrote in the six weeks that followed. I came home the day I heard power was back on in my neighborhood.
Remembering Katrina in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement“You could hear screams of people trapped in their homes. That’s when I began thinking about those I had left behind when I was released from Orleans…
A Katrina StoryThis is a story written by my Uncle, Eric Groh, who was born and raised in New Orleans and experienced 1st hand the devastation and rescues during the days following Hurricane Katrina.This is my Katrina story, written in December ’05. It also contains my pictures. It…