Today I got an idea. August 29 is the one year anniverary of Hurricane Katrina. To commemorate the event, starting August 26 I will post my recollection of what I and my family did each day, as if it were happening in the present. I will continue to do this daily, until September 2 at least, which marks the day the U.S. Army finally came to the city and rescued the people stranded at the Superdome and the Morial Convention Center.
This account will not relate political or historical events necessarily. It will detail on a day by day basis what happened to me and how Katrina affected my life and the people I know.
I am calling this the Katrina Blog Project, and I am hoping I can convince other bloggers and writers from the Gulf South to do the same thing. If a large number of people help me with this, the project will be something of a virtual re-enactment across many blogs of this natural disaster in the words of its victims.
If anyone wants to join me in this I will link to them, so interested readers can surf from blog to blog and learn from personal accounts in a way that no newspaper or book could ever duplicate.
I will publish guidelines to this project in coming weeks. Please post me with your reactions to this idea, and if you want to participate, leave me your blog address so I can link to you.
My first Katrina re-enactment post will be August 26.