Welcome to my virtual Return to NOLA Journal!

The journal from previous and planning trips to rebuild the beautiful city of New Orleans.

7 years ago Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Louisiana. This storm was categorized as a category 5 hurricane, which is the most powerful on the hurricane scale. The beautiful city was flooded with water when the levees breached causing water to flow throughout the lower areas of New Orleans. St. Bernard Parish was flooded along with the Lower Ninth Ward. A huge portion of the population of the Lower Ninth Ward is living in poverty. The devastation was described as looking like a third world country after the storm. The governor of Mississippi flew over by air and was stunned at the sight of the destruction responding with one of the many notable quotes of Hurrican Katrina,  "I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago." —Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.