Rebuilding NOLA businesses 20 years after Katrina #shorts #nola #katrina #hurricanekatrina

Nearly 80% of New Orleans flooded and more than 1,800 lives were lost. But as stunning as the video and the overall numbers are, the real story of what happened to New Orleans in August of 2005 is told in the experiences of the individual people living there. People like Rick Blount, who runs the iconic French Quarter restaurant Antoine's, owned by his family since his great greatgrandfather founded it in 1840.It was way worse than I could have imagined. I thought that a wall had fallen down and I thought w ...