New Orleans got hit pretty bad, though it would've been worse if it would've been hit dead on like they thought at first. I'm from Louisiana, and the majority of my family still lives there, so I've been hearing news all day. They are all fine, thank God, but I also have family in Mississippi, where it's a LOT worse than New Orleans. Mobile and Gulfport were ripped to shreds and the floodwater is bad. My great-aunt had a stroke during all of it, and last we heard she was being taken to the hospital (this was shortly before they were hit full force by Katrina) and don't know anything about her condition yet.

This has been a really bad hurricane season.