Hurricane Katrina. The name alone strikes fear in the hearts of men and disgust at those who witnessed the aftermath, both in person and on television screens across the country. One undeniable aspect of the watery behemoth... [view]

As many may say, the days leading up to the arrival of Katrina in New Orleans were surreal for me, yet unforgettable. I remember coming home from school on the Friday before its arrival and my mother carefully watching the... [view]

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita August/September 2005 My wife and I (Jane and Dan Sikes) had driven from New Orleans to Jacksonville, Florida, for a beachfront vacation with our daughter and our two granddaughters. ... [view]

When Hurricane Katrina hit I was thirteen years old. I live in St. Charles Parish which is 30 miles away from the heart of New Orleans; call it the suburbs if you will. Our area got lucky and suffered very minimal damage... [view]

I thought hurricane Katrina was a joke. The previous year we had a huge hurricane warning that scared us half to death, thanks to Hurricane Ivan. We didnt even start packing to evacuate until August 28th. I don't know why but... [view]

Victoria Slind-Flor, former resident of New Orleans in the 1980s and journalist now a resident of Oakland, CA. Originally published in The Beltane... [view]

I'm long-winded, so bear with me. I'll start by saying that I was not aware that a hurricane was heading toward New Orleans until that Saturday morning before it hit. One reason is because I don't watch the news much.... [view]

My Katrina time was a bit difficult. I went all over the south moving from place to place not really staying in one perticular place for a long period of time. However when I was in Lake Charles in a state park out there. ... [view]

I moved to the city after Hurricane Katrina. I did not move here because of the storm, or to rebuild the city, or because I rode trains across country. I moved here because of a woman--now mother to our one year old... [view]

I lived on the other side of the Atlantic when Katrina hit New Orleans. There was obviously a lot of news coverage. I remember that we had to write an essay about it in my high school English class, pretending to be a... [view]

For Katrina my whole family went to the town of Tallulah, Louisiana and since all of the hotels were full to capacity. We ended up staying in a 10 room motel called Roger's Motels. The people treated me and my family well. [view]

I was born and raised in Africa, to be precise Nigeria and I was fortunate to be among one of the neighborhood kids that got admitted with merit-based scholarship into an American college. It took me a while to come up with... [view]