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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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\"Where were you during Katrina\"\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n When I remember Katrina pain, panic, desperation, powerless, and agony comes to my memories. It all started on a Wednesday August 24, 2005. When the news…

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Lauren Morales \r\nNot Just Katrina but Rita\r\n\r\nI live in a little town about thirty minutes south of New Orleans called Lafitte. Like many others, my family evacuated Sunday morning August 28 around three am. We…

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I volunteered to serve in New Orleans as a Chaplain for the United States Public Health Service. I was one of the first seven chaplains ever with the USPHS and was assigned to work with the \'recovery\' crews from…

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The horror of the storm is compounded daily by the outrageous \"policies\" of the insurance companies, and the utter disorganization of FEMA and the Corps of Engineers. When Katrina hit Waveland, Mississippi, the wall…

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I came to Bay St Louis with the National Park Service\'s Hurricane Recovery Team in November, 2005. My job was to help supervise the removal of \"debris\". What I didn\'t realize until I got there was that \"debris\"…

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On the Monday before Hurricane Rita hit SE Texas, I was discussing with a friend the proability of it actually hitting here. Having grown up on the Gulf Coast, the possibility is always there. However, odds are low that…

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I was a volunteer with the Red Cross relief effort for Katrina during the time that Rita roared ashore. My specific job was as the contact person for shelters in the Jackson Mississippi area. I called them each day and…

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