Twelve years ago, Pelicans season-ticket holder Chip DeLanzac and his entire extended family first evacuated to Houston, then settled temporarily in Dallas, in the weeks and months after Hurricane Katrina. “We were all in a state of shock. We were in a daze,” DeLanzac said of his family suddenly and unexpectedly being uprooted in a blink.
From that traumatic experience came a stream of indelible memories of his stay in Dallas, based on the generous reaction of locals.
“At church that Sunday, some of the people even offered us money,” said DeLanzac, whose family had only packed for a couple days as it evacuated New Orleans.