Hurricane Betsy had come and gone. Before Katrina, it was the storm people remembered. I slept through the worst of it, being only 10. My best girlfriend lived in a part of town that got flooded and they lost most everything. A friend of our family's house got flooded enough that they had to move to the attic and wait for rescue.
I suspect not a lot of people remember it so vividly any more. But we had only moved to New Orleans on the 18th of August. It sort of etched itself into my mind forever.
Wonder what sort of memories Hurricane Ike will leave behind....