What is your background, Candice?

I offered to buy drinks for a night of the project.

How were you personally affected by Katrina?

The long answer to that question will take all night. I don't really like to focus on what happened to me, as it's so small compared to what happened to other people. I'm still here and I'm doing alright, I didn't lose everything I owned and I didn't get stuck in Texas.

I know your role as "ground support" is still evolving, but do you have ideas about what the team is going to see? 

I'm sure they are going to do the standard disaster tour, (9th Ward, Gentilly, Lakeview, Broadmoor, N.O. East, etc.) and probably hit some areas out towards the Mississippi gulf coast, too.

What are your personal experiences, knowledge of the problems withFEMA/Police, etc, that the team is coming to investigate?

 I've got lots of friends and relatives with FEMA trailer problems and other FEMA crap. They mislaid some of my paperwork too, but I'm past caring about that at this point.

 What are your thoughts about this type of citizen journalism vs. mainstream media?Do you feel C.J. has an advantage or disadvantage?

I don't think it is as much of a war as some people make it out to be.  For us, we need as much as we can get.