Your senior year of high school is supposed to be one to remember for the rest of your life. As a senior of Cabrini High School class of 2006, it was a year I will never forget. We were approximately two weeks into the... [view]

My family and I lived in St. Bernard Parish before Hurrican Katrina. I was two weeks into my freshmen year at Hannan High School when we heard of the hurricane. We were going to stay and ride it out at first but at the last... [view]

I was a sophomore in high school when Katrina hit. I remember the day before I was driving home from New Orleans School of the Creative Arts with no idea what was in store for me. My family lived in Mandeville during... [view]

When Katrina hit New Orleans I was a sophomore at Immaculata High School on the Westbank. When my family had heard a strong storm was coming we decided to pack and leave. It took us more than 12 hours to get to Houston along... [view]

I can remember exactly how my fourteenth birthday played out on August 25, 2005. I remember celebrating it with the person I call my bestfriend, who is more like a sister since I am a only child. As Katrina grew closeer to... [view]

When Katrina made landfall I was living in Pensacola, Fl. We were especially frantic because hurricane Ivan had just hit Pensacola and most of the city had not rebuilt or even stabilized their homes. My mother's house still... [view]

The men and women of the United States Coast Guard were the true heroes during the months following Hurricane Katrina. In preparation for the Hurricane's landfall, their families were sent deep in to the heart of Mississippi... [view]

Before hurricane Katrina, I was living on the Westbank. My family and I evacuated to Houston, Texas several days before Katrina hit land. Like many others who evacuated, I expected to be in Houston for a short amount of time... [view]

August 28, 2005 I left my house thinking I'd see my father the following day. I thought I'd continue highschool at Mount Carmel on Monday. I thought it would be a routine evacuation that would end up being a "mini- vacation"... [view]

When people look back on Katrina, they always look at the effects it had on the people of New Orleans, but what about how it affected the animals throughout our city? My two dogs were greatly distressed after my family's 17... [view]

ONE that would give you info about whats going one. While watching the show we see hurricane katrina was in fl and how it had made a turn towards us. this was two days before it hit. it was my moms birthday so we celebrated... [view]

I am from New Orleans, Louisiana and this is my evacuation story. For Katrina, i evacuated with my dad, grandapa, my dad's girlfriend, and some other people to Beaumont, Texas. We stayed in a Red Roof Inn for about a week... [view]