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When Hurricane Katrina hit. I was in Baton Rouge having a few drinks at typical New Orleans style hurricane party. I had just gotten in contact with my parents and sister who had decided to ride it out at my father work…

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Left New Orleans 2-days before Hurricane Katrina hit land. My sister and myself went to Lafayette, LA to stay with our parents. Hurricane Rita hit the south central and south western areas of Louisiana hardest. At my…

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When Hurricane Katrina eased into the Gulf of Mexico and my local agency decided that the Parish I live in was to evacuate, I didn\'t think anything of it. I figured it was going to be another one of those two day…

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Prior to the hurricane I had recently joined a kickball league. The Kickball of the Crescent City, or KOCC, was composed of 8 teams from maybe 3 bars. My team, the Beat-Alls, was a Beatles-themed team playing out of Finn…

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Martha Hart was a very special person and a very close friend of mine. During Hurricane Katrina she was hospitalized in critical condition at Baptist Hospital. Following the subsequent failure of the levee system and the…

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My kids inspect our house after the storm.

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12/21/05\r\n\r\nMy family and I have a small camping trailer we use for hurricane evacuations. We had a trial run with Hurricane Ivan last year. We packed for a weekend trip from home. Little did we know our weekend…

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I loved her before she was mine.\r\n\r\nLike a wartime soldier who listens to his comrade tell stories about his girl back home and finds himself pining for her as well. The New Orleans that stole my heart belonged not…

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