>> kabrel johnson: oh, they do.ed in. >> alfonsi: last winter, nothing seemed to be moving in new orleans. the pandemic shuttered the city. even bourbon street seemed to have sobered up. >> teacher: it's your responsibility to learn. >> alfonsi: st. augustine has bounced between in-person and virtual learning all year long. >> ray johnson: we can't decide what god is going to do. if he say everything shut down, everything shut down! >> alfonsi: when band practice was cancelled for a week, then a month, lawrence honore improvised. when their high school football game was nearly flooded, the entire band called an audible, and shook the stadium from below. and, when they learned mardi gras parades were cancelled? >> ray johnson: i don't know why y'all coming wide like that. >> alfonsi: ray johnson didn't miss a beat. >> ray johnson: ba-boomp, ba- boomp, ba-boomp! well, it's hard, because it's a tradition, you know. just like anything else, you know, you got to suck it up and keep moving. >> alfonsi: that's what brice m