Reel Review Mom

If you’re looking for something to watch this weekend then I strongly suggest the documentary, Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time on Hulu…. There’s also another documentary about Hurricane Katrina that will premiere tomorrow, 8/27/2025, called, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water. I’ll watch that one as well…..

It’s hard to believe that we are almost at the 20 year anniversary of this devastating hurricane. The Hulu documentary is so good on SO many different levels… I love that it is in your face about the economic disparities that the majority of this city faced when trying to evacuate and how social reform was so needed to prevent such catastrophic loss in life/ property for future natural disasters. “It’s not about protecting stuff, but protecting and helping the people.”

There’s still so much more that can be done to help such communities because being a lifelong Southerner, poverty is quite the staple for the majority of us. Being told to evacuate is nice and all, but if you don’t have the money/resources to do so then what good does it do you?

I remember watching the TV regarding Hurricane Katrina because I had family that lived there at the time back in 2005 (Lakeview; they were able to evacuate, thank God). I distinctly remember thinking, “New Orleans is gone. This city is no more…they can’t come back from this….how??! It’s uninhabitable.”

Thank God the people of this city proved me wrong. That goes to show what resilience truly means…..