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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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It was exactly eight days after Katrina struck the city, my father and I decided to go back to the city and check on our house. We heard on the news and from other people in our hotel in Houston that the troops blocked…

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I remember meeting at my parents\' house at 2am the day before Katrina was expected to make landfall. With four vehicles loaded up with necessities and memoirs, we set out to find shelter from the storm. One of my…

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It was a house that became a victim to Katrina\'s brutality. This house, once nestled seamlessly in a cozy lakefront community, now stands out like a dog lying dead on the side of the highway. Its insides turned out,…

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Thankful\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nEvery New Orleanian has his/her own Katrina horror story. Homes were devoured by disease-infested water reaching from the wooden floors of the first level to the wooden floors on the second. …

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I enter through the side door because I seem to have misplaced my key for the \r\n\r\nfront door, as if that matters now. It takes a few jiggles and some sweet-talk to get the \r\n\r\ndoor loosened from the jamb; the…

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This is how I analyze my situation then. We stayed in the FEMA trailer from Jan 2006 to Mar 2007.

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I lived 1 ½ blocks from the beach in Biloxi, able to see the water from my front yard. \r\n \r\nMonday 5AM, Wind was starting to pick up not sure if I should go or stay. I was told that my property elevation was…

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my name is karen miller rotolo. iam 25 years old and a mother of a two and a half year old. This is my story. my beloved mother took her life march 18,2008. within the last three years she has lost her home, and all her…

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