MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — As Hurricane Katrina headed toward land, Isame Faciane’s family hurried to leave.
Their home in Slidell, La., just outside of New Orleans, where 14-year-old Faciane lived with his grandparents, was directly in the path of the storm.
“My grandmother, she didn’t want to leave,” Faciane recalled. “And my grandfather, he was like, ‘Delores, we gotta get outta here.'”
As Saturday approaches, marking the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in and around New Orleans, Faciane’s memories of what happened that day are still vivid, and continue to impact him a decade later.