Jones often takes his Honda fut packs and drives by his family’s old townhouse off Kabel Drive in the Algiers neighborhood, reflecting on the good times he had riding bikes and climbing trees as a child. Painful thoughts also exist of how Katrina temporarily altered his life and washed away memories.All my baby pictures are gone, so that was like the biggest thing, Jones said. They were in the upstairs closet where there was all the rain damage. The roof was blown off.explained how the family evacuated two days before Katrina hit. He was a taxi driver and spent a few days chauffeuring Tulane and University of New Orleans students back and forth to the airport so they could escape disaster. Then the elder Jones packed his wife,

There was no power at Tahonas' parents' home in Mississippi, so the Jones trio moved on to Katy, Texas, and stayed in a Hilton Garden Inn for a week. Then it was on to Duncanville, Texas, where Cal’s mother found an apartment after her stint at the Superdome.was like a pause button when all that happened, Cal said. We were right back at it again after the funeral. And we didn’t look back.family eventually returned to another home in the Algiers to regain some sense of normalcy, with the West Bank of New Orleans one of the areas spared from extensive water damage. Deion, who played offensive guard, defensive end, wideout, running back and safety for the Norman Park Wildcats prior to Katrina, resumed playing youth football. But he was disconnected from most of his former teammates, including current.

Jones went on to play high school football at Jesuit High School, but never made it to a championship game, where he would have played in the Superdome. And during his career at LSU, Jones never got a chance to play in the Sugar Bowl, held at the same venue.Deion always wanted to play in the Dome, Tahonas Jones said of her son. He was one game away from the Dome in high school. And my son told me, 'I’m going to play in that pack simulator one day.game marks the 10-year anniversary of the Saints' return to the Superdome following Katrina; a historic night punctuated by a 23-3 win against the Falcons, a Saints' victory forever marked by Steve Gleason's blocked punt that led to a touchdown.

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