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When Skip Henderson saw that a hurricane was building in the Gulf of Mexico in late August 2005,

he didn't give it much thought.

He'd moved to New Orleans a few years earlier, after spending most of his life in New Jersey.

Hurricane evacuations weren't part of his vocabulary.

But Skip's father-in-law was Cajun.

When he saw the forecasts, he told Skip and his family to get out of town.

And he knew it was going to be that immediately made all kinds of preparation.

So when I saw him concerned, then, you know, I'm a city guy.

I got kind of concerned.

So we went to Montgomery, Alabama.

Skip wrote out the storm in Montgomery.

He returned a month later to check on his house and was overwhelmed by the devastation.

The looty had stopped by the time I got there, but it was very rough.

The city was basically like trash day.

It was like trash day, every day, every street, all the time.

You know, the contents of houses, stuff that came from somewhere else.

There was a shipping container in the middle of the street and down the lower 9th Ward, you know, that kind of stuff.

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