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After evacuating for Katrina and then returning my parish looked completely different. The only way to describe it is to compare it to a town that had just been hit by a nuclear bomb. All around there were military…

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my story is not long, and if fact not much of anything. The effect of the storm is more than anyone could imagine and what I went through is more than words could say. I became very indigent at a young age, to the point…

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he night of katrina me and my mother stayed at our house in metairie. Thinking it would not be as bad as it was we stayed and got stuck till 3 days after when we were able to leave. Being only 14 years old it taught me a…

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Katrina was far more destructive than i could have imagined but the experience of the hurricane that stuck with me the most was the traffic. I never had nervousness towards cars until this time. Evacuation consisted of…

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When my family and I found out that Hurricane Katrina would be hitting the Gulf Coast, we fled to different parts of the country. Some to Atlanta and Virginia, others to Texas and Arkansas. My immediate family and I,…

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To Whom It May Concern,\r\n\r\nAs I reflect on this fourth year anniversary after Katrina, I can truely say that it has been filled with much lost and a lot of gain. However, for the sake of peace of mind, I have…

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I currently live in Bridge City (Jefferson Parish) as i did before Katrina. My family and I evacuated to Avoyelles Parish and stayed with relatives. Like so many others we were essentially stranded there for what seemed…

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I evacuated for Hurricane Katrina on a friday thinking that I was going to be back home by sunday. I only brought along three outfits along with me for the trip, but not knowing the great catastrophe that was going to…

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Thursday after the storm , my father, brother, uncle, and myself went to reserve to raise my fathers tugboat which had been sunken in port by the carelessness of a deckhand who had forgot to secure a watertight…

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So, it was the morning of the day to evacuate, and i was living with my mom at the time. I never took the whole thing serious at frist, I thought we were staying no matter what. Next thing I know I see my mom paking all…

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