Dispatch from 'Ground Zero,' New Orleans

This first-person account of conditions in New Orleans immediately following the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina was written by Dr. Greg Henderson, a pathologist from Wilmington, North Carolina who moved to New Orleans a week before the storm struck. Composed on Tuesday, August 30, the message was originally sent to family and friends, some of whom clearly found it gripping enough to forward on.  Read more...