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I lived on the other side of the Atlantic when Katrina hit New Orleans. There was obviously a lot of news coverage. I remember that we had to write an essay about it in my high school English class, pretending to be a…

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For Katrina my whole family went to the town of Tallulah, Louisiana and since all of the hotels were full to capacity. We ended up staying in a 10 room motel called Roger\'s Motels. The people treated me and my family…

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I was born and raised in Africa, to be precise Nigeria and I was fortunate to be among one of the neighborhood kids that got admitted with merit-based scholarship into an American college. It took me a while to come up…

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For hurricane Gustav my family and I packed up our belonging and our pets and headed to our house in Lake Charles. We were there for about a week and had all the amenities that we needed, ELECTRICITY! Everyone I talked…

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My experiences with Hurricane Katrina are probably like many people. I was a senior in High School in New Orleans when all of a sudden the principal comes on over the intercom to say that we should all watch the news…

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The hours before Hurricane Katrina, I was on my way to Alexandria, LA. When I saw the size of the storm, I made a last minute judgment to leave. A 4-5 hour trip took me 14 hours and when I arrived, there was no lodging…

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My parents and I, their dog and my cat, came back to New Orleans on September 22, 2005 (my birthday, incidentally). We had traveled from Alabama only to be met at every checkpoint by National Guards who told us they…

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I evacuated to Baton Rouge for Hurricane Katrina. It was the most horrible experiences of my life. We were living in an apartment with fifteen other people. It was air matresses lined up from door to door. My parents and…

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I am 21 now and Katrina hit when I was fifteen. I was living on the north shore at the time, getting ready to begin high school at Ponchatoula High school. Our house didn\'t take much damage, aside from the torn shingles…

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My most memorable experience with Katrina has to do with coming home and the aftermath of coming home. Being cooped up in a hotel was stressful enough not really knowing exactly what was going on, but coming home made…

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