Category 1 Isaac a "kitten" compared to fierce Category 4/5 Katrina? Try telling that to MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, who tweeted about the loss of the home she and her husband had been restoring -- a casualty of hurricanes for the second time.
Early Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry thanked well-wishers for their "kind words and prayers" after she announced her new home was destroyed by Hurricane Isaac earlier that day.
"On Saturday's @MHPShow I'd just given a tour of the home we lost today," Harris-Perry said, referring to the show that bears her name.
She also posted a link to the story, which features the host and columnist showcasing the New Orleans home her family was fixing up.
The home had been abandoned seven years before, during Katrina.
Harris-Perry cheekily referred to it as a fixer-upper .
The tour of her new home coincided with the 7th anniversary of Katrina hitting land.
She tweeted a photo of what was left of the home Wednesday -- now the casualty of not one but two hurricanes.
"Feeling sad. #Isaac took the home @JamesHPerry and I just bought," Harris-Perry wrote. "All safe. House was vacant except for my dreams."
Prior to reporting how the hurricane landed right on her doorstep, Harris-Perry had been tweeting updates about the storm as it gained strength.
Wednesday morning, CNN was reporting that Isaac's 9- and 12-foot-high storm surges were topping 8-foot levees, and that the storm had left 500,000 people without power throughout Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi -- with most of the outages around NOLA.
Previously, officials with the National Hurricane Center had expressed concern that residents in a disaster-fatigued New Orleans wouldn't take a Category 1 storm like Isaac seriously -- especially after Katrina, which hit landfall as a Category 3 and eventually gained strength as a 4 and 5.
Early Wednesday, CNN's Rob Marciano noted that the majority of the more than 150 people who had to be rescued from flooding were within "mandatory evacuation zones."
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