Twisted Fleur de Lis Sculpture standing defiantly in the eye of the hurricane symbol base. by John Doherty Denver, CO via... [Read more]

Half of my family was from New Orleans; I spent a good deal of time there as I was growing up. I'd heard the warnings about how someday a hurricane was going to come along and sink the city shaped like a bowl. It just seemed... [view]

I evacuated prior to the storm and the levee breaks. I lived in St Benard Parish. after the disaster i returned to Ohio, where i grew up. My problem to this day is that I raised "My Daughter", Fathered by another man. I... [view]

Living in Old Mandeville for 28 years we have packed many times for hurricanes. A few clothes and my precious pictures and tapes of my family fill our car & RV. We had never before gotten water close to our house from the... [view]

Many people experienced great hardship during Hurricane Katrina, however I did not. I consider myself one of the lucky because Hurricane Katrina did not have a profoundly negative effect on me. At the time, I lived in a... [view]

I live in uptown New Orleans, Broadmoor neighborhood. I stayed in town for the storm at at the Lowe's hotel. The second day after Katrina, when the public was allowed on the street, my neice and I got into her car and came... [view]

As the sun was going down on August 29, 2005, my 95-year-old, invalid mother died in my arms as we tried to escape the rising flood waters coming into our house by climbing the fold-down stairs into the attic of our house.... [view]

We came back to the city about 5 weeks after the flood. We explored Lakeview and the 17th St. Canal where we heard there had... [Read more]

My house... boarding the windows didn't help at all since the flood water was up to the ceiling. [Read more]

Family from Florida who helped us dig through what was left of our house! [Read more]

It was October 1, 2005, and it was the first day my 74-year old mother-in-law was able to see the destruction the storm had... [Read more]

WE ARE THE MEYER FAMILY. WE LIVED IN ARABI FIRST HOUSE BEHIND ARABI DINER. WE LIVED THERE FOR 10 YEARS WHEN KATRINA TOOK IT AWAY. IT WAS OUR FIRST HOUSE AND WE THOUGHT WE WOULD BE THERE FOREVER. ON SUNDAY BEFORE THE STORM WE... [view]