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Who: Harter March\r\nWhat: Hurricane Katrina\r\nWhen: August 27 - 31 2005\r\nWhere: New Orleans \r\n\r\nSaturday, August 27th was a fairly calm day for me honestly. A hurricane was coming but thats nothing new, and it…

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Who: Trish Hagood\r\nWhat: Hurricane Katrina\r\nWhen: Nov. 2005\r\nWhere: New Orleans\r\n\r\n\r\nFrom the plane as we landed the sea of blue looked like swimming pools, but, no, they were the infamous grue-bleen roofs of…

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Life after katrina is like the hurricane just hit today home away from home is not just a saying its a real thing every thing is different,harder and worser you would think its going to be better no its not it feels like…

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my life is diferrent because i have to deal with the fact that my home my town and friends are all gone. me and my famiy moved to south bend indiana and on september,19,2006 our house caugth a fire so we had to start an…

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The 2005 hurricane season almost seemed like a wedge issue for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (F.E.M.A.) and politicians alike. New Orleans\' residents new the truth about Michael Brown and the other slow…

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we chose to stay by our homes and family...My mom lived one block over and we boarded up her place and she stayed with us...I had just had a heart attach and we were nervous about being on the road, so we chose to stay,…

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Ten students of Capdau Charter Middle School wrote and illustrated this book during an after school New Orleans Outreach class in the spring of 2006. The students wrote the book to tell their story of coming back home to…

Making it Home…

Hurricane Katrina really affected my family and my life. We left New Orleans 3 days before the storm hit. We went to Houston,Texas and stayed in a hotel for a week. We thought that we would be coming home after that…

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Well, life is more difficult than it was prior to the hurricanes Katrina and Rita for myself and many others. The hurricanes delayed graduation for me by a semester and it has limited services and the way of life that I…

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West Jefferson Medical Center stayed open for the entire storm. This is one of the few hospitals that did stay open. Luckily this is my employer, and I came home within a week and went back to work. Unlike many of my…

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