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Dr. Hébert has started his Katrina Blog Project as announced. It is his personal memoir of what happened in New Orleans in the last week of August, 2005.

This memoir is not especially dramatic. I was not involved in any rooftop rescues. I was not stranded in any hospitals. My family evacuated, and it was weeks before we saw our home again. Perhaps you could think of this testimony as an alternative to the hard-hitting on-the-ground reporting that filled the airwaves that week, and in the weeks after. This is the story of what a disaster looks like through ordinary eyes. It is like Exodus written not from Moses’ viewpoint but in the words of the last Israelite pushing his cart across the muddy bottom of the Sea of Reeds.

I have read the first two posts covering the two days before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and I’m hooked. I can’t wait for the other 10 posts.

If you enjoy good writing, I urge you to read the posts even if you are not interested in what happened in New Orleans during Katrina.