Time sure does fly when you're battered by hurricanes, fleeing your home to live in a sports arena, relying on FEMA for pretty much everything and worrying about, well, surviving.
Sunday marked the fifth anniversary (seriously, time flies when you're still homeless five years later) of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in Louisiana.
We can barely believe it's been half a decade since the costliest U.S. hurricane on record at more than $80 billion worth of damage wreaked havoc on the Big Easy and changed the tune of the city forever.
By comparison, Hurricane Andrew, which eviscerated southern Florida, caused only about half that amount of damage when accounting for inflation.
And that was 18 years ago.
Mostly, we're left wondering how it's already been five years because of the work left to be done in New Orleans.
As President Barack Obama visited the still-bleeding city on the Mississippi River Delta Sunday, he promised to turn vacant lots into businesses and trailers still serving as makeshift classrooms into real schools.
And after one of the most widely criticized government disaster responses in U.S. history, we can't help but wonder, is this even a problem one person can fix?
But, hey, there's always the good news that now The City That Care Forgot can stop worrying about that whole boring, Debbie-Downer-of-a-story Katrina mess.
It has 200 million gallons of oil to clean up.
