After many of the evacuees were taken from New Orleans and sent to other cities to live, the Air Force built a "tent city" at New Orleans International Airport. The tent city was built to house the hundreds of Airmen that would live at the airport and assist the Air Force in moving relief and reconstruction supplies into the city.

Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans August 29, 2005. The storm devastated New Orleans and large portions of the Gulf Coast. In New Orleans, the storm surge from the hurricane broke the levees that protected the city from Lake Pontchartrain. Much of the city was flooded as a result of the levee breaks. Thousands were forced out of their homes and had to leave the city. The U.S. military helped many of those hurricane victims to safety. Four days after the storm hit the city, the Air Force asked one gentleman from the Pentagon and myself to go to New Orleans. He was to provide media support, I was to write news stories about the Air Force’s assistance in the hurricane evacuation efforts.

While in New Orleans, I wrote five stories for the Air Force: Combat communications squadron hooks up tent city; Airmen evacuate hurricane victims; Offutt services crew provides comfort to hurricane victims; Rumsfeld, Myers visit New Orleans airport; Air Force MASF last stop for some hurricane victims.