I wasn\'t in New Orleans for Katrina, as I\'ve only recently arrivd to the city, but I remember thinking that it was an awful tragedy and after Kanye West\'s comments began thinking that the appalling government response may have had racial along with the obvious socioeconomic components. But to be perfectly honest New Orleans wasn\'t on my radar. Since then its become a place that I quite like and I wonder if I would even be here if tragedy hadn\'t struck.