I remember hearing about the storm merely three days before my family evacuated our westbank home for over three weeks. Three weeks may not seem long to other evacuees but in a house in Houston with twenty other people it... [view]

I'm Janet Beeching, Aunt of Thomas Henegar. We had problems with Rita when she roared through South Florida. I live in Homestead, Florida, exactly where Hurricane Andrew hit. 22 inces of rain fell on us, and Rita was just... [view]

I knew about this Hurricane coming our way it's name was Charlie. Charlie was deadly, It injured over 100 people. Yeah me and my family are like saying "Yeah, well we have a safe house nothing can hurt us". Well once the... [view]

My mom and I had never evacuated before. So when she woke me up at eight in the morning telling me to "pack a bag, we're leaving," I knew something was different. This was my first indication that Katrina was something to... [view]

My father was living in a nursing home in New Orleans which wasn't evacuating for the storm. He had advanced dementia and was not mobile. My 80 year old mother and I went to be with him in his building. The day after the... [view]

As i was leaving, after my first trip back to check on things, I noticed the search and rescue marking date was 9-11 and... [Read more]

Louisiana National Guardsmen on duty outside of the Louisiana Superdome. [Read more]

It is July 27, 2010, and in another month, it will be the 5th anniversary of Katrina. I don't think (at least in the continental U.S.) that there has ever been such a catastrophe, both natural & made made that has held... [view]

When Hurricane Katrina hit. I was in Baton Rouge having a few drinks at typical New Orleans style hurricane party. I had just gotten in contact with my parents and sister who had decided to ride it out at my father work... [view]

We evacuated the Saturday before Katrina. The ironic thing is, I had no intention on leaving the city. That morning, my sister called me and said we would be going to Baton Rouge. I didn't think the storm would hit, besides I... [view]

We weren't going to leave. Well, I wanted to. But my husband was one of those I-was-here-for-Betsy-and-I'm-not-leaving types. Of course in Betsy he was 11, he lived near the river and didn't flood, and his dad was a cop.... [view]

The whole experience of Hurricane Katrina was so surreal that after five years it seems to me like it never was different. I can't even really remember how life was before August 29, 2005. I had just graduated from... [view]