Twenty years ago this month, Hurricane Katrina swept into New Orleans and nearby communities along the Gulf Coast, leaving behind more than 1,000 lost souls, shattered homes and businesses, and flooding on a scale never seen before. Though I didn’t grow up in NOLA, I was a senior in high school in northern Louisiana when the storm made landfall on August 29, 2005, and my life was never the same.
When I heard about Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, the new Netflix original chronicling the storm and its impact on my fellow Louisianans, I thought it was going to be just another documentary. Now that I’ve watched all three episodes full of pain and triumph, and experienced one of Spike Lee’s best projects in years, I can say that I was very wrong. Here’s why…
