August 28, 2005 \r\n\r\nI just lost it!\r\n\r\nMax Mayfield top dog at the National Hurricane Center, storm expert & wise sage just said in 33 years he has never faced a worst-case scenario as the one we are now facing in New Orleans. Pat Shingleton (local Channel 2 veteran weather anchor just interviewed his counter-part from New Orleans who has evacutated and is in the studio this evening. The newsmen there have given touching stories about how this is not about ratings, not about the hype, this as the mayor of N.O. says \"is the real deal\" - and Hurricane expert Max Mayfield concurs. The mood in the Channel 2 studio, is quiet, reverant, somber. We were told tonight to prepare for the possibility of \"total devastation\". I lost it. I am over it now. But I had to face that one moment of reality and let this sink in. If I hadn\'t seen the aftermath of Camille. I remember standing quietly surveying the total devastation there and knowing that in my lifetime Biloxi would never be the same, never come back the way it was. Once, a sleepy little southern coastal resort town with magnicient plantation style homes and moss covered live oaks overlooking the coast, after Camille, it looked like a nuclear bomb had hit it. Biloxi is back but it is not the place it was, rather dotted with Casinos boasting Las Vegas style neon blinking signs and flashing pink flamingos. I can\'t imagine New Orleans not being there, or the French Quarter leveled. My mother reminds me that San Francisco went through the total devastation of a fire and a major earthquake but it did come back. - but not in the generation that witnessed these catastrophes. We\'re prepared for the worst, let\'s hope for the best. \r\n\r\nOriginally posted 08-28-2005 at 10:49 PM by Margaret Saizan, Baton Rouge, Louisiana\r\n\r\nHurricane Katrina: Live from Louisiana: A Hurricane Blogger\'s Personal Journal\r\nwww.hurricane-katrina.org \r\n\r\nAbout Margaret Saizan\r\nMargaret Saizan (www.margaretsaizan.org) is a new media publisher, personal/organizational coach, and community activist. The Baton Rouge, La. native became a blogger during the largest natural disaster in U.S. history – Hurricane Katrina. A graduate of Newfield Network, one of the best regarded international coach training schools, Margaret focuses on empowering leadership and facilitating action during transition, crisis, and disaster as the pathway to new vision. www.hurricane-katrina.org and Big Vision Media aspire to ignite wise action, new vision and positive change through transformational media.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n