Katrina, Mississippi
Voices from Ground Zero

Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of Mississippi head-on in August of 2005. While the media turned to New Orleans and the horrific man-made disaster of levees breaking and flooding the area, Mississippi struggled, after a direct hurricane hit, to dig out, assess and rebuild. If I remember correct......more

NancyKay Wessman puts the reader inside the Emergency Operations Center bunker in Gulfport, MIssissippi before, during and after Hurricane Katrina, giving a true insider's perspective of the killer storm. After reading the book, I feel as if I truly know the champions of the storm -- those first res......more

Katrina, Mississippi: Voices from Ground Zero carries the weight of lived experience in a way that makes the disaster feel immediate, human, and impossible to distance yourself from. Nancykay Wessman doesn’t approach Hurricane Katrina as a historical headline alone, but as a convergence of individua......more

I have always been fascinated with Katrina and the damage it wrought in New Orleans and Mississippi. I did a drive down that part of the coast and to New Orleans before the storm so it was sad to see the cities I visited completely destroyed. After so many hurricanes have hit so close to home this y......more

This book should be required reading and “go-to-book” for all county and state Emergency Managers. It should also be a required reading for all EMS students.......more