What I can remember about hurricane Katrina and Rita is very byes having lived there after Rita. My initial feeling was that of sympathy. I was pretty well informed having grown up in a community driven family. Knowing that the damage was catastrophic, I went to school to become a building inspector. I completed the Building inspection program in May of 2006. Shortly after that I was working in South Louisiana consolidating five Parishes into one building department. Even after the “clean-up” of New Orleans there where blocks and blocks you could not drive through in a regular car. None of the damage from flooding and fire is a surprise. Really none of the military action is surprising either. I’m friends with retired and active military who like to write a lot. What did surprise me was Zeitoun’s story. I didn’t hear a lot of heroic story’s about Muslim’s . There is a lot of racism in the south. That’s the only reason I’m not still there today. Dave Eggers should be given credit for telling an incredible story. That might not have be told otherwise.
