Article: Reporting in New Orleans: If FEMA Couldn't Get In, Why Was It Easy For Me?(The City)

Byline: Mike Madden

As Hurricane Katrina gathered force on Sunday, Aug. 28, my editors shipped me off to Hattiesburg, Miss., where Gannett owns a small newspaper-the Hattiesburg American-that sat right in the storm's track. Our team of reinforcements flew in on the company jet right before Katrina's first feeder bands swept the town. It was a Gulfstream with plush leather seats, a deli spread and a full bar. We looted some booze, but since the plane was heading to Florida to pick up an executive, an editor with us insisted that we leave some of the mini-bottles of whiskey behind. By Tuesday, she was cursing herself for it.

Within 16 hours, the storm ...

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