this is roughly where I am general.
this new bay saint Louis bridge is about 10 miles away from my place here:

hurricane Katrina had taken out the old bridge.
You survived Hurricane Katrina? Where you there when it happened? What did you do? Did it impact your place? Wow, I didn't put two and two together.
I lost 5 homes to hurricane Katrina.
all on the coast.
I was in natchez, Mississippi as it happened.
Wow. That has to be devastating. Why do you continue to live there? That always seems so weird how people return to the place of a disaster. But, I guess our roots run deep and once we settle into a place it takes hold of our hearts. I have the state that I live in and have always wanted to leave, but it's home soil and it's so difficult to pull yourself away from a place that's so familiar.