When Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi and Louisiana Coast, it caused devastation on a scale never before seen from any hurricane.  Out of the 171,000 homes on the Mississippi Coast, over 65,000 were completely destroyed and over 38,000 homes sustained major damage.  As of this writing, hundreds are dead and hundreds more are missing - many of them presumed dead.  Just about everything that was built on the beachfront is now obliterated.  It will take years to dig out and rebuild.

As of 9/24/05 - almost 4 weeks after the storm - things are beginning to have a light shadow of normalcy.  But, you can be sure we'll never forget what happened to us on August 29, 2005.  Here you'll find some of things I've written about my family's experience with Katrina along with some photos and such.  Me and my family rode out the storm in my recording studio (a 2-story, cinder-block building reinforced with steel rebar.)  It is the same place my parents, sister and I rode out Hurricane Camille when I was 4 years old.  Camille was a dust-devil compared to Katrina.  I'll never stay through another one.

(I've also included a journal entry I wrote when we were grazed by Hurricane Ivan.  This was back when I was running this web site off my DSL connection... then they caught me and shut down my ports.)