The Brief

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Twenty years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana, and a Valley doctor found himself in the middle of it.

He survived for six days with barely any food or water in a New Orleans hotel as the city fell into chaos.

The backstory:

Dr. Robert Kuske, who had moved from New Orleans to Scottsdale, was visiting his former city on Aug. 29, 2005, when the Category 5 storm hit. Like so many others, he was a sitting duck.

"For four or five years I couldn’t talk to anybody about it. I would break out in tears. What we experienced there is burnt into my brain," Dr. Kuske said.

He and more than 200 other guests hunkered down at a hotel in the French Quarter, which became a bunker to survive both the storm and the gangs roaming the streets.

"Gangs we

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