Twenty years later, still one conclusion: Katrina sucked

Editor’s note: Mississippi Today Ideas is publishing guest essays from people impacted by Hurricane Katrina during the week of the 20th anniversary of the storm that hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005.

I don’t have any really good Katrina stories to tell.

Thinking about Katrina, even 20 years later, still freaks me right the hell out.

Many people will be remembering the storm on Aug. 29. I promise you, I will be doing my best not to think about it. Katrina in one way or another consumed years of my adult life, personally and professionally.

Honestly, I wish I had not volunteered a few months back to write this column. But I did my job after Katrina, and I’ll do it now.

I was a reporter/editor for the Sun Herald in 2005, basically Capitol bureau chief covering the Legislat