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Days Before Katrina Hit I didnt even know there was a hurricane approaching. The hurricane hit and i evacuated to Baton Rouge. Like many of my counterparts i had to transfer schools and spend my entire senior year in a…

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\r\nLife In The Gulf Coast Is Dying ©\r\nR.G. Parnell\r\n\r\nThe Gulf Coast is dying\r\nVictim of a pestilence born of corporate greed\r\nAnd it\'s escalating and growing\r\nInto something more heinous than anyone ever…

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Pictures taken of my Home in Lakeview; before Katrina and after Katrina. The before picture was taken by my father for insurance purposes. The after picture was taken by myself a week or so after Katrina hit.

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I had just been at the homecoming dance with my girlfriend after a week of being at a new school. It was the next day we evacuated to Mandeville on a last minute decision because of the increasing strength of the storm.…

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My story.\r\n\r\nLets see. My family is the typical wait to the very last minute to do everything and anything. So naturally we were looking at the news trying to decide whether or not to evacuate. We decided as…

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I was in the 9th grade when Hurricane Katrina hit. I had just started at Benjamin Franklin High School. When I was a kid, we lived in a small apartment in New Orleans east and were not too well off financially, at all.…

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I will never forget the day before the storm hit. As Hurrican Katrina, a then Category 5 storm, loomed in the gulf, it was apparent that this wasn\'t going to be a typical evacuation. My family and i packed to make the…

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I was not personally affected by any Hurricane, in fact I was far away in California for said disasters. Much like any other disaster, I heard a lot of horror stories through the media, mainly tv news. But after some…

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The things you take for granted are the small things you can never have back that sting the most. From the tiniest favorite clothing piece, to an entire car, to the memories and new beginnings that were forced upon…

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Hurricane Katrina taught me many important life lessons. I was only a sophomore in high school on the Cabrini cross country team. I was young and unconcerned with the news or weather. I was more concerned with what I…

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