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When I Arrived\r\n\r\n I arrived in New Orleans last year two days before the hurricane. I came at the time when everybody was leaving. I was, like all other people at the airport, shocked when I…

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The Saturday before the storm my family and I got our stuff and left for Dallas, Texas. We stayed with family members for a few days but it was miserable. We then stayed at a hotel for a week and we started to worry…

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A year after Katrina the streets in New Orleans are still close. There are still many streets with no people living there. Many stores yet to be opened, some of them never will again. Many schools are still not opened.…

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Our family spent the first few days of the Katrina disaster in East Texas. When it was clear that we wouldn\'t be going home for a long, long time, we set out for New England, where we had family. \r\n\r\nAs we drove…

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My Story\r\n\r\nI\'ve lived the last 15 years of my life in Honduras, an underdeveloped country. In 1990 we received a visit, not really a good visit; Hurricane Mitch had come to say hi. Hurricane Mitch made a lot of…

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My family and I evacuated the Sunday before Katrina. We intended on staying and riding out the storm, but when we saw how much strength it had gained during the previous days of tracking it, we had no choice but…

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Hurricane Katrina: My Experience\r\n \r\n \r\n My father, mother, little sister, and I decided to stay for the hurricane. Like many New Orleans people, my dad didn\'t feel the need to get out of town, and he figured…

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