Katrina Diary (2006) Online

Katrina Diary (2006) Online

While residents along the Southeastern United States boarded their homes and evacuated for Hurricane Katrina, one Mississippi resident saw an opportunity to use his recently purchased video production equipment. Unaware that Katrina would soon demolish his home, a historical art gallery operated by his family, Justin and a few friends filmed a sarcastic prediction of the destruction the storm would cause. Although Justin evacuated just before Katrina hit, he knew there were people trapped on the Coast, including his family. In efforts to find his grandmother, he learned the plight of many others. He quickly focused all his efforts on providing relief to residents in South Mississippi. Armed with nothing more than a trailer laden with donated supplies and names of people's loved ones to search for on the Coast, Justin and his father spearheaded a project that fed, clothed and provided relief to hundreds. Journey into the Katrina Diary of J. Justin Pearce, and see footage of Biloxi from...

The entire first half of the film's footage, the prediction of the hurricane coming to destroy the MS Gulf Coast, was entirely unplanned. In fact, it was the only footage that Pearce believed would never be seen. Pearce informed his friends, who by chance decided to stay with him for the hurricane, that he wanted to film a prediction of the storm. With no discussion or planning, Pearce set the camera on a tripod and began filming what would become the only memories of his home and the last look at the beauty of his hometown before the storm.