Don’t worry about me.
Many people probably wouldn’t want to miss the holidays with family to spend more than two weeks in the most storm-ravaged corners of the Gulf Coast.
But I do. The thought of spending the holidays gathering stories in New Orleans is better than any gift I know.
Photographer Kathy Moore and I will leave sometime around noon today with plans to make it to Mississippi by nightfall.
In coming days, we expect to get back in touch with some of the people we met along Hurricane Katrina’s path nearly four months ago. We’ve already contacted some, and will look for others. We will go back to places that moved us before, and venture into New Orleans to see how the fractured community is responding after the storm. We want to find stories that challenge the way people look at Katrina and its aftermath.
Join our adventure in the Tampa Tribune, on TBO and on WFLA-TV News Channel 8.