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My family and I evacuated from Slidell to a Naval Base in Tennessee. My experience there made me understand why Tennessee is called the volunteer state. Everywhere I looked on the naval base there were tents- tents for…

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Reality Check\r\n Thursday, August 25, 2005 I had gotten my senior ring, bringing myself and the other 332 classmates of the Brother Martin class of 2006 into our final year of high school. That Saturday was when the…

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I had a different point of view of Katrina. Unlike many New Orleanians who suffered from the flood waters, my experience was from the Northshore of Lake Ponchartrain where the main destruction was from fallen trees. …

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I visited New Orleans the Thanksgiving right after Katrina, and I think that is what really made me decide to move here. On that trip my sisters who live here and I attended the second line parade for the city. What I…

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Hurricane Katrina only brings one work to my mind...chaos. For hurricane Katrina, we traveled with a family of 12, plus a dog, leaving my uncle, a New Orleans Police officer, and grandfather, and Chalmette Reserve, back…

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My family and I evacuated to Avoyelles Parish to stay with some relatives there. As the reality set in that we would not be able to return home very soon my parents decided to enroll my sister and I into the local…

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I remember the day before the evacuation, my family had slept at my grandparent\'s house in Chalmette. We were actually considering staying, but decided to evacuate to Houston. Most of us thought we would be back in a…

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During Katrina, my mother and I stayed with my aunt in Bixby, Oklahoma. It was my senior year of high school, and I had to go to a new school that I had never heard of after only being in my school two weeks or so. The…

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I just remember waking up that Saturday before it hit and having to get out of town as fast as possible. I thought it would be a regular evacuation, with me leaving town for a day or two, and returning with little or no…

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My family and I evacuated to Lafayette from the west bank for Katrina. After the storm passed, I moved into my aunt\'s house in Houma, La, due to my high school, Jesuit, flooding. I went to Vanderbilt Catholic for a…

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