Revolutionary Communist Party flyer--mid-August 2006. [Read more]

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

When hurricanes hit, there is a great risk that the thousands of chemicals we Americans store in houses and garages will end up in waterways. These include pesticides, paints and coatings, fuels and oils, cleaning materials... [view]

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]