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Where ‘Bad' Is Still ‘Great'
By Steve Wright, OutdoorChannel.com
VENICE, La. — Capt. Mike Frenette stood on the dock of his Redfish Lodge, scanned the expansive Venice Marina and said, "Everything you see in this marina was gone, except for some pretzeled steel."
Frenette was referring to the effects of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. He said those words exactly two weeks before then-unforeseen Hurricane Isaac would pack another layer of disaster on the Louisiana marsh.
It's these major catastrophes – like Katrina, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 and now Isaac – that can make a man reconsider his life.
"If I'd only been in...