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We weren\'t going to leave.\r\nWell, I wanted to. But my husband was one of those I-was-here-for-Betsy-and-I\'m-not-leaving types. Of course in Betsy he was 11, he lived near the river and didn\'t flood, and his dad was…

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The whole experience of Hurricane Katrina was so surreal that after five years it seems to me like it never was different. I can\'t even really remember how life was before August 29, 2005. I had just graduated…

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The day before Hurricane Katrina struck, we packed up our cars and set out for slow crawl through traffic towards Lafayette. My mother and some close relatives took the trip with me. We ended up spending the night in…

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This is a second blog that I wrote on the two year Anniversary of Katrina including photographs.

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This is a brief blog with photographs that I wrote on the two year anniversary of Katrina.

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Mid September, we still can\'t come home but my father in law had special passes through the government and Entergy because he was the engineer for Le Pavillion HOtel. My husband had just gotten his agriculture license…

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There have only been two times I have every seen my dad cry. Where you\'re a young girl your dad is the bravest person you know, and I never thought that I would one day see my dad cry, let alone two times in a two week…

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Well, i can vividly remember riding the hurricane out in an apartment building in Kenner, La. My sister and my niece lived in an apartment on the 2nd floor so all of my family decided to go there to ride out the storm. …

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