Living in Hurricane Country

Cameron Parish, Louisiana, after Hurricanes Gustave and Ike drew bullseyes on the Central Gulf Coast in 2008, echoing 2020’s train of tropical storms. Cr. Douglas Lee

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…