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Sierra Lee Katrina has changed thousands of people's lives. It has changed them…

Sierra Lee

Katrina has changed thousands of people's lives. It has changed them physically, emotionally, and financially. Katrina was a major disaster that ruined cities like New Orleans, Slidell and small towns in Louisiana. During the storm I stayed in Mississippi , at this time I gained at least ten pounds and my hair was falling out. Therefore, I am a little heavier and my is a little shorter. Katrina gave me mixed emotions. I was very emotion because I was no longer able to return to my home that I knew for eighteen years of my life. I was an emotional wreck. It didn't help much when I saw the people suffering in the flooded streets of New Orleans. People were dying, children were suffering just the thought made me sick. But now emotionally I am stable. It is over and this now the healing process. Financially, I guess my family is good. My mother and grandmother are back in their homes living their lives. I am back in school so as of right

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Item 12070

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“Sierra Lee Katrina has changed thousands of people's lives. It has changed them…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/12070.