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We returned early on, late September, to discover that we were among the luckiest; no significant damage, our electricity already back on, our lives basically intact. As we searched for friends and normal behavior, we…

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This story is an excerpt from an email I sent to friends in early December 2005 describing life in post-Katrina New Orleans. It describes the scene at a hair salon, Arthur\'s House of Glamour, in the French Quarter, as…

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I still remember clearly about a devastating storm, Harricane Katrina and the questions brought up among people after that. \r\nWhen it happened I was in Canada with my fiance\'s family from Caribbean island. We were…

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I\'m back in NOLA since march of 2006. in my mind it\'s not different at all - im stuck in the moment of (oct.2005) kicking my door in and seeing all of my things gone.....\r\nthe flower off my brother\'s coffin is all…

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I came back to my house which was relatively untouched. I am now doing almost all the same things I did before, volunteering, gardening, working, riding my bike... but it\'s not the same at all.\r\n\r\nMany people have…

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\"Throws\" from the Krewe du Vieux parade, February 2006.

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Gutting out debris, Canal St., October 2005.

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LA National Guard, Bourbon St., Oct 2005

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I put my experiences down just after the storm and still have them. I could email them to you. I stayed because #1 I didnt think it would be that bad - as Carla, Audrey were not and I stayed in Houston during Hurricane…

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