Katrina Hotel

I'm about six years late on this press release, but here it goes.

I was hit with a shock wave of news when I found out that a building from my past was imploded in 2012.

That building was the Grand Palace Hotel on Canal St. in New Orleans.

The year was 2006, and it was roughly fourteen or fifteen months after Hurricane Katrina. During that time I was a freshman in college and it was Mission Week or Saint Louis Christian College's version of Spring Break.

It was during this week that I went down to New Orleans with several of my classmates to help gut a few houses so the local people could r...