FRISCO, Texas -- When Andre Hal saw the pictures of the flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston, his mind went straight to Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans 12 years ago on Tuesday.
Hal was 13. He remembers eating MREs -- meals usually provided to soldiers that are ready to eat as is -- for two weeks after the storm came through. Hal is from Port Allen, Louisiana, which is about an hour-and-a-half from New Orleans.
“It was just sad,” Hal said. “But what kept me up was my family. My family is really tight.