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I am from Gentilly in New Orleans, Louisiana. My house have 13 feet of water in it, making the flood water line on top of my roof. My father is a captain of the New Orleans Fire Department and in the case of a natural…

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A Humanist in a Hurricane\r\nby Steve Schlicht\r\n\r\nON AUGUST 29, 2005, at about 5:00 a.m., I awoke from a restless sleep and checked the Internet for the latest location of \"the storm.\" In just a few hours Katrina…

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I was right out of high school and in my first week of college at UNO. when the storm hit I ended up in Baton Rouge for a few days then i went to San Antonio for a week or two when I came back my families house it had…

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My Katrina story is bittersweet. My younger siblings;Juliene and Rachel and I evacuated with 44 of my family members to Gloster, MS. My mother and father stayed behind in Algiers and I kissed and hugged them goodbye on…

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I was born and raised in New Orleans but was living in Los Angeles at the time of the storm. I never felt so far from home, so lonely. The scariest part was that my mom didn\'t have time to get anything out of our house,…

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Before Katrina, I thought of Florida as the best place to live. My grandma lives there and every summer I go there to visit her. When Katrina hit, my family and I evacuated there and ended up staying there for 2 months.…

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My family evacuated from Hurricane Katrina to Tennessee. During my stay there (over a month) I learned why Tennessee is called the volunteer state. My family stayed with another family in an old Naval housing complex…

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My story is similar to that of the rest of the country. I\'m not from New Orleans. I watched Hurricane Katrina from my living room for two weeks straight. I was gripped with horror, desparation, and an overhwelming sense…

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Katrina- for some people it was the best thing that ever happened to them- others, and probably most, it was the most terrible thing to have ever happened. I was a lucky one- My family\'s homes weren\'t destroyed, no…

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I have a story bout my mother. LaVerne Flannigan, she was a nurse at Charity Hospital. She drew the unlucky straw for this storm(katrina)to stay and hunker down with the patients. I evacuated to North Alabama and lost…

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