JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - We are currently two days from the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

“Just a total gut punch,” said Henry Barbour, who remembers Hurricane Katrina.

Barbour discussed how strategically his uncle, Gov. Haley Barbour, was thinking in those immediate days after the storm’s landfall and recalls how First Lady Marsha Barbour stayed more under the radar but still remained a recurring presence along the coast.

“Marsha was there that morning in Hattiesburg and as soon as the first responders were able to go in, Marsha went in and she was part of that,” Henry Barbour said. “I think, in a lot of ways, she was additional eyes and ears for Haley.”

Only a week after landfall, Gov. Barbour asked Henry Barbour to serve as ex

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