Texas A&M’s Moffitt, Jones speak on deep impact 20 years after Hurricane Katrina: ‘Stuff nightmares are made out of’

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Delvin Jones still doesn’t talk with his parents in great detail about the weeks that followed Aug. 29, 2005.

It’s too rough— too dark.

Even as Jones, now the Texas A&M director of external operations, stood in a hallway with Aggie strength coach Tommy Moffitt 20 years later, the pair checked on how the other was doing.

Both men survived the front lines of Hurricane Katrina, including the weeks of devastation that followed landfall, and were changed because of the experience.

Two decades later, their paths merged at Texas A&M as a part of a football program that benefits from the experience of men who survived — and thrived — after weeks of trauma.

“It was terrible,” Moffitt said. “It’s stuff that nightmares are made out of.”

In an already illustrious