12 / 88 r e b u i l d i n g . . . r e c o v e r i n g on that fateful saturday, i saw the water rising around us. all of us sat glued to our local news stations and watched in disbelief as our roads turned into rivers. ?e sunday that followed struck us with the truth that no neighborhood was safe. ?e water seemed to be rushing everywhere. ?e devastation increased to unprecedented levels. a normal weekend in august turned into a catastrophe that baton rouge had never experienced in its history. it wasn?t until a few days later that i realized what every spare moment of the