hurricane Katrina

It's hard to imagine what it must have been like to be inside this place as Hurricane Katrina laid waste to the city, making things as dangerous inside as they were outside.

In an excerpt from her upcoming memoir ‘No Higher Honor,’ former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recounts the days after Hurricane Katrina, which decimated much of New Orleans and whose mishandling was later seen as a debacle for the Bush Administration.