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At the time that the storm hit, I was in the Army Reserve. I had just returned home from a year of being on active duty, a few months earlier. I evacuated with a friend to his parents\' home in St. Charles Parish. …

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I returned to Louisiana from Martha\'s Vineyard two months after the sitting water resided into Lake Pontchartrain. My neighborhood was unrecognizable. I barely recognized my house. What was once an attractive shotgun…

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Hurricane Katrina. The name alone strikes fear in the hearts of men and disgust at those who witnessed the aftermath, both in person and on television screens across the country. One undeniable aspect of the watery…

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A BitterSweet Nightmare\r\n\r\nTragedy at every corner,\r\nNo way to get out if you have not already left.\r\nWinds blowing so hard that they could pick your feet up off the ground and make you fly.\r\nRoaring waters…

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As many may say, the days leading up to the arrival of Katrina in New Orleans were surreal for me, yet unforgettable. I remember coming home from school on the Friday before its arrival and my mother carefully watching…

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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita August/September 2005\r\n My wife and I (Jane and Dan Sikes) had driven from New Orleans to Jacksonville, Florida, for a beachfront vacation with our daughter and our two granddaughters. …

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When Hurricane Katrina hit I was thirteen years old. I live in St. Charles Parish which is 30 miles away from the heart of New Orleans; call it the suburbs if you will. Our area got lucky and suffered very minimal damage…

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I thought hurricane Katrina was a joke. The previous year we had a huge hurricane warning that scared us half to death, thanks to Hurricane Ivan. We didnt even start packing to evacuate until August 28th. I don't know…

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Victoria Slind-Flor, former resident of New Orleans in the 1980s and journalist now a resident of Oakland, CA. Originally published in The Beltane Papers, an online journal no longer in existence. The original story…

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I grew up in Long Island, New York. When choosing which college to attend I chose one in New Orleans, Louisiana. I chose to go to school in New Orleans because I wanted to have the opportunity to experience a different…

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