Thanks, Katrina: Twenty Years

Saturday, August 02, 2025

Twenty Years

I remember creating this blog in 2006, right after Katrina.

I was a babe of 50 years and had just gone through an experience of my lifetime, along with the rest of the Louisiana Gulf Coast.

I'm now 70 and am dying of fucking cancer. So I'd like to finish this up with this last post.

This blog encompasses our collective fear, loss, sadness and rebirth. I'm proud of what I've put into it:

It contains posts about Ray Nagin, mayor of "The Chocolate City".

LINKS: https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/31361101?q

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Post Katrina was the era of the New Orleans blogosphere. Some VERY GOOD writing came out of this. Here are the links to the writing of those folks from that time.

Combing thru my list of Katrina related blogs created in 2006, I am making a list here of the blogs that are still available to read.

Toulouse Street , in my opinion the best Post Katrina blog. The writing, the feelings and pictures Mark Folse creates were addicting to me.

Michael Homan's (RIP) account of going through the storm and the aftermath was riveting as well as heartwrenching.

Mosquito Coast, written by Swampwoman. You'll get a good feeling of how it was back in July of 2006.

After the Deluge, by Josh Newfeld . Josh remembers events via comics (not the funny kind), using real people's experiences after the flood.

Varg Vargas, an artist and reverend, recalls the haunting and hilarious after the storm in New Orleans.

NOLAblogger brings back those "great memories" from 2006.

Library Chronicles . Jeffrey - who acts like the grumpy old man he WILL BE in 40 or so years - will give you a great perspective of what was happening in his world back then.

Metroblogging New Orleans. Check out the list on the right side of the screen for the blog authors. The ones that begin with 'no_' are your post Katrina blog observations. Good reading here. Especially Craig.

MANY more bloggers at this link: https://archive-it.org/collections/7625

If you read any of the links above, I hope you will come away with a bigger picture in your mind about the way this area has healed since Katrina the bitch visited us. Thanks to all.