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 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]

This van was parked behind UNO's Jefferson Center, on Causeway Blvd. in Metairie, in the fall of 2008. [view]

A baptist church after Katrina. The entire rear side of the building is washed away. This church is located in the Lower 9th Ward North of Claiborne. The photo was taken during the middle of 2006 as I recall. I'd guess the... [view]

This is a song I wrote shortly after Katrina. I arrived here approximately two weeks after Katrina hit and have been here ever since. My music is the majority of the reason I stayed, and the unique culture that supports music... [view]

This is a photo of myself playing music at a church in the Lower 9th Ward. My music is the main reason I stayed in this area after the recovery and relief efforts were no longer needed. [view]

Hurricane Katrina came through South Florida where I lived at the time as a strong Category Two, killed four people and filled both of my trailers with water. I was at a Red Cross shelter helping with ham radio at the time it... [view]