Was the New Orleans area just THAT lucky between Camille (1969) and Katrina (2005)?
Kinda not counting Georges (1998) even though that was the first storm I can recall that prompted some NOLA-area residents to evacuate. Never once in the 1970s and 1980s.
That was the question I was asking my husband. I moved here mid '90s and he kept warning me and I'm like, eh, nertz. Georges was my first one and it scared me but then I was like hurricane schmuricane.