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Update on Katrina-impacted life events---November 19, 2007\r\n\r\nAs Katrina advanced across the Gulf, my Navy pilot son called frantically again and again from Kuwait. I reassured him that we were not staying, and that…

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It was the day before Katrina and my family and I were still debating whether to leave or stay for Katrina. It was when we got a phone call from my brother Ivan who was telling us to leave because it was going to be a…

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I was medically unfit to travel prior to the storm and could not take the long ride out of town. We secured the outside items and house, rode out the storm. I nor my sister, had ever been in a hurricane before and my…

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That Monday - when the floods began to rush and roll and creep into the city - I was traveling from Portland, Oregon to Bogota, Colombia. I clung to the New York Times I had just bought because I couldn\'t watch the TV…

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