As I was sitting in my science classroom in high school visiting with the teacher and my fellow classmates about Katrina and the devastation that the hurricane was leaving behind I thought to myself "that I would truly never... [view]

The people who have come back, the so called "survivors" or "refugees"; the people who rebuilt need to be remembered. It... [Read more]

Someone needs to tell the story of what the State of Florida did in southern Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. I can tell a part of the story because I was there. At midday on Aug 29, with the storm still on the top of... [view]

My kids inspect our house after the storm. [view]

12/21/05 My family and I have a small camping trailer we use for hurricane evacuations. We had a trial run with Hurricane Ivan last year. We packed for a weekend trip from home. Little did we know our weekend would turn... [view]

I loved her before she was mine. Like a wartime soldier who listens to his comrade tell stories about his girl back home and finds himself pining for her as well. The New Orleans that stole my heart belonged not to me, but... [view]

Prior to the hurricane I had recently joined a kickball league. The Kickball of the Crescent City, or KOCC, was composed of 8 teams from maybe 3 bars. My team, the Beat-Alls, was a Beatles-themed team playing out of Finn... [view]

Martha Hart was a very special person and a very close friend of mine. During Hurricane Katrina she was hospitalized in critical condition at Baptist Hospital. Following the subsequent failure of the levee system and the... [view]

When Hurricane Katrina eased into the Gulf of Mexico and my local agency decided that the Parish I live in was to evacuate, I didn't think anything of it. I figured it was going to be another one of those two day vacations... [view]

I lived in St.Bernard parish during Hurricane Katrina..We were planning to stay and ride it out, but on Sunday morning, 8/28, my husband woke me up at 6 a.m. to tell me the winds were 160mph and I had to leave. He did not... [view]

I happened to be in georgia at the time katrina hit. Born and raised in st bernard parish, i had tons of family including my parents and siblings still there. My mom, neice and older sister evacuated that sunday but my dad... [view]

This was our house the first time we were able to see it after the hurricane [Read more]