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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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I remember sitting in a hotel room on Baton Rouge watching the images of water enveloping the city. The reports became worse and worse. I felt like I was watching a movie; that it wasn\'t real. I remember feeling that…

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I\'m long-winded, so bear with me.\r\n\r\nI\'ll start by saying that I was not aware that a hurricane was heading toward New Orleans until that Saturday morning before it hit. One reason is because I don\'t watch the…

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My Katrina time was a bit difficult. I went all over the south moving from place to place not really staying in one perticular place for a long period of time. However when I was in Lake Charles in a state park out…

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I moved to the city after Hurricane Katrina. I did not move here because of the storm, or to rebuild the city, or because I rode trains across country. I moved here because of a woman--now mother to our one year old…

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I moved to the city after Hurricane Katrina. I did not move here because of the storm, or to rebuild the city, or because I rode trains across country. I moved here because of a woman--now mother to our one year old…

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