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Now, and even shortly after Katrina, I try not to think about it. And, actually, besides the annoying news specials that come on TV every August, I never do. Sitting around thinking about Katrina and what happened and…

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My Katrina story is just like most people I know. I departed my house on August 28,2005 in my brother\'s car with a bag that contained three shirts, three pair of pants, a few undergarments, toothpaste, toothbrush, one…

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I just moved to New Orleans three weeks ago from California. I am going to school at University of New Orleans for a one-semester exchange. I have no family or friend ties to Katrina, but I feel obligated to become…

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I left for Hurricane Katrina 2 days before it hit on the 29th. I was very nervous for this hurricane more than I have ever been. I think I had an intuition that it wouldnt end up good. I left work early on the 27th to…

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I was living in New Orleans East when Hurricane Katrina hit. My family had evacuated to Columbus, Georgia. We stayed in a hotel for 2 weeks and watched as our house became underwater. This was so hard on us to watch an…

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For hurricane Katrina my family and I evacuated at the last minute with our next door neighbors and their family, who we are very close friends with. We did not have any idea where we were going. We had just spent the…

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My Katrina story is a little different than most of the stories collected on this site. I\'m a native of Savannah, Georgia and I was living there during the storm. At the time I was living with my girlfriend and she had…

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Of course when Katrina was on her way, my family, like many others, thought we would just have to get out of our homes just for a couple of days. So the day before the hurricane, we went to stay at the New Orleans…

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During Hurricane Katrina I was a Senior in high school. I was attending John Ehret High School. During that time I really didn\'t think too much of hurricanes I thought we was just going on a mini vacation. I had no idea…

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Katrina was something that noone was ready for. Everyone thought it was going to be like every other time we had to evacuate; leave home and be off of work and school for a couple of days, then come back home and have…

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