Katrina: Tales from a Hurricane Shelter

Katrina places the reader in Long Beach, Mississippi, directly in the path of one of the most destructive acts of God in America's history. Tom Bishop, a captain with the Long Beach Police Department, had seen many hurricanes, tropical storms and depressions during his twenty-five year tenure on the force, but none compared to the level of devastation Hurricane Katrina left in her wake. His firsthand account, illustrated with numerous shocking photographs, offers a vividly personal experience of life in the aftermath of the storm that changed the Gulf Coast forever.