BATON ROUGE, La. – Myles Brennan was 6 when his parents told him to pack a bag of clothes. With a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico threatening their Mississippi home, the Brennans headed to St. Augustine, Fla., to ride it out with Myles’ aunt.
They never would see that home again.
As Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the levees in New Orleans failed, flooding 80 percent of a major American city. But the storm surge also wrecked parts of the Mississippi coast, as 20-foot walls of water left areas devastated. The Brennans lost everything.
“We came back to a lot full of sand,” Brennan said on my radio show Tuesday.