Living in Hurricane Country
8 min readNov 10, 2020
Excerpted from ‘Katrina’s Wake: Journeys on a Hurricane Coast’ by Douglas Lee, e-book published in August 2020, on Hurricane Katrina’s 15th-Year Memorial:
PART I
THE HURRICANE COAST
Most people here have seen the power of the big winds, for we are south of New Orleans, deep in the Mississippi River Delta. A ragged peninsula of marsh and leveed lands flanking the…