Hurricane Katrina at Notre Dame Seminary

Monday night, August 29, 2005, and the crew at Notre Dame begins to notice the signs of the approaching disaster that had already befallen those nearer the breached levees. The few passing vehicles were heard to splash through water that had not been in the street at sundown. Many of the"Katrina Krewe," as those weathering the storm at Notre Dame called themselves in reference to Mardi Gras parade groups called "krewes," gathered here at night amid the constant roar of the generators just outside the windows. There was enough power to run two televisions, a walk-in refrigerator and freezer, a lamp, and even cell-phones. Cellular reception was tricky and seemed to work best at night and best for those whose cell phones had an out-of-state area code. Text messaging worked remarkably well for everyone, but with the tremendous amount of information people were trying to share, one seminarian likened the texting to telegraphing from the Titanic.
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