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Before Katrina, I don\'t even know if I would have considered Louisiana a place to make a home. When I first moved out of my childhood home, I moved into my Father\'s house (he passed away a few months before) which was…

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Even though I was not directly affected by hurricane Katrina, I still had to evacuate the city. I relocated to my hometown of New Iberia, La.I lived there all my life up until age 16. A few days after the storm passed, I…

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The entire family was in South Carolina at Fort Jackson watching one of my brothers graduate from basic training when Hurricane Katrina decided to leave a trail of carnage across the Gulf Coast. For a moment, a moment…

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My Pre- and Post-Katrina\r\n\r\n I lived in a small house in Kenner, Louisiana for twenty-five years with my family. To better express how small the house was, it had one half and one full bathroom. The kitchen…

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I tried to look. Still not ready.

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Sometime, I\'m not sure when, our house became a home. For a while after Katrina there were no walls, no roof, no smooth wood floor to call ours, just other people\'s couches, beds, school room carpeting, hotels,…

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I was born and raised in the Buccaneer Villa North subdivision in Chalmette. I moved to Dallas, TX because I lost everything from Hurricane Katrina. My mom bought a house here in Dallas and my husband and I moved in with…

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After completing four years of active duty in the military away from home, i was ready to get back to New Orleans and enjoy being home for good. In July of 2005, I was looking forward to spending time with my family and…

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On August 29th 2005 I watched the aftermath of hurricane Katrina on a CNN newscast from a gym in Iraq. It was the last 3 weeks of my deployment and here I was with 8 other people watching the news of our flooded city,…

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\r\n\r\nAfter studying abroad, I transferred to UNO in 2003 to finish my studies and hoped to graduate by 2005. I moved into an apartment in a four apartment complex located near Ponchatrain Lake only a few miles from…

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