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My father, brother, his girlfriend at the time, and I left our home the morning the hurricane hit. We drove to Amite, Louisiana to stay in a house my uncle owned. A house I once thought was spacious and comfortable…

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I remember waking up to find out that Hurricane Katrina was indeed going to be some kind of threat to our city. I dialed the phone number to my house, since I slept out at cousin\'s house, to see if my parents were…

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Fortunately, Hurricane Katrina did not affect me directly. I was still living in Lafayette, LA at the time of the tragedy. As I recall we did not get a drop of rain when the hurricane hit. Matter of fact it rained…

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At four o\'clock in the morning on Sunday August 28th 2005, my family left our home in Kenner, Louisiana to head for Alexandria. It was my first time evacuating, but I wasn\'t too worried. I knew how these things…

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When I returned home from my evacuation of Hurricane Katrina, I had already known that my home was left untouched. With the exception of some minor damages such as downed trees and missing shingles, I had a warm home to…

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I moved to New Orleans by myself in the spring of 2000, and soon fell in love with the city while sinking deep roots into the heart and soul of her. At the time of Katrina, I was living in a rather run-down…

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The evacuation of my family for Hurricane Katrina was what many people would call a nightmare. Just like many other evacuees, this experience did not have a good start and only seemed to get worse. It all began that…

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On August 24 I was at dinner with my boyfriend and his family celebrating his birthday. I received a phone call from my mom saying my grandmother was in the hospital. Three days later my grandmother passed away. In the…

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I was the last person in my household to leave for the storm. My mother and grandma had already left. I woke up early Sunday morning to finish boarding up my house and picking up all the lawn furniture. By the time,…

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After being alerted that Hurricane Katrina would hit near New Orleans, I left work early and began boarding up the windows of my house in New Orleans East and made the normal preparations to my belongings as I do…

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