TAMPA, Fla. -- The lights went out, the flood waters were rising, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Leonard Fournette, then 10 years old, and his family had to get to the Claiborne Avenue overpass of I-10 in his hometown of New Orleans quickly during Hurricane Katrina.
The Grand Palace Hotel on Canal Street, where they chose to ride out Katrina, one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to hit the continental United States, had caught on fire.
Fournette was with his parents, Lory and Leonard Sr.; his grandmother, Lorraine Tyler; his sisters LaNata and LaTae and younger brother, Lanard.