We spent the night huddled in the hallway listening to the trees snapping in half, falling all around us and on the house. I told a friend "Don’t worry, if the hurricane really starts to get bad I’ll get my mom and sister in the car and drive north." He laughed at me, said I was an idiot and didn’t understand what was coming. My dad was in Vietnam so I was the man of the house, and I scoffed at the idea of evacuating. Although I’ve been in Minnesota for the past 25 years, in 1969 I was 16 years old living a few blocks from the beach in Gulfport when Hurricane Camille hit. My Hurricane Camille experience is what compelled me to return to Gulfport after Katrina to shoot these 360 degree panoramas.
![hurricane katrina damage blixi hurricane katrina damage blixi](https://www.dailyherald.com/storyimage/DA/20150827/news/150828972/EP/1/67/EP-150828972.jpg)
See The Washington Post’s Multimedia Katrina Special for QuickTime versions of the panoramas and additional Katrina coverage. The aerials east of Pass Christian were shot about three weeks after Hurricane Katrina and three days before Hurricane Rita, and everything from Waveland west to New Orleans was shot three days after Rita, which caused additional flooding (or re-flooding) in Chalmette and the Ninth Ward.
![hurricane katrina damage blixi hurricane katrina damage blixi](http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120828154536-katrina-ann-12-super-169.jpg)
![hurricane katrina damage blixi hurricane katrina damage blixi](https://i.redd.it/z01w71teial31.jpg)
It includes aerials of Biloxi, Gulfport, Long Beach, Pass Christian, Waveland, Slidell, Chalmette, and New Orleans.
#HURRICANE KATRINA DAMAGE BLIXI SERIES#
This is a series of 360 degree panoramas that I shot for the Washington Post after Hurricane Katrina. NEW! For the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina I updated my Katrina panoramas and finally created Flash and HTML5 versions.