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I decided to stay because me,my brother,my dad, and my mom have never left for a hurricane and we weren\'t going to start now. We didn\'t think it would actually be this bad because it never is. Well, we were wrong and…

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My parents made me leave, but I came back while my mall, Oakwood, was burning down. Some of my neigbors and I took to arms to defend our homes against swarming project rats who descended upon Marrero. I can\'t give all…

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The morning of the hurrican i was in Baton Rouge where i had evacuated to the saturday before the hurricane. I was at one of my baseball team mates house with two other players who were not from the area. Two of us were…

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My family and I deceided to leave our homes because of the consequences we might face if we had stayed. My house did flood, but I only got a foot of water in my house, so if I had stayed we would have had to walk around…

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I am still at UNO since the storm, and I live in Destrehan. My family and I evacuated on Saturday August 27, 2005 by a St. Charles parish mandatory evacuation. I helped my family, my girlfriend\'s family, and my…

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Katrina\r\n\r\n Although thousands and thousands of people were affected by this Katrina devastation fortunately I was one of the lucky ones. My house was not affected by the storm other than a few shingles missing…

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Where am I now?\r\n I am emotionally drained from hearing nothing but things about Katrina. It\'s always Katrina this Katrina that. All people talk about is what happened to them, it\'s not that I really don\'t care;…

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The Katrina Hatch is an emergency attic escape hatch it will allow you to go though the roof of your home to escape from your attic.\r\n The Katrina Hatch (patent pending) is an idea that came from watching the news…

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Five students of Sophie B. Wright 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…

Making It Home…

I would just like to say on behalf of many Virginian families that ran many food drives and gathered blankets for Katrina victims that I hope that we did our part to help thoses who were and who are in need. May our love…

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