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My family and I live in River Ridge and evacuated to Destin, Florida for Katrina. On our way to Destin, we were driving through the outer bands of Katrina. At that moment, it hit hard that Katrina was about to destroy…

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I was a sophmore in high school when my family & I evacuated for Hurricane Katrina. The story of us getting somewhere was more interesting than anything. We loaded up my mother\'s Suburban with our life\'s treasures and…

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I spent the first few days before, during, and after Katrina in Nashville. I worked for an environmental company at the time. My boss had us set up shop in Dallas, where all of the office and administrative staff…

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My family and I evacuated from Slidell to a Naval Base in Tennessee. My experience there made me understand why Tennessee is called the volunteer state. Everywhere I looked on the naval base there were tents- tents for…

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Reality Check\r\n Thursday, August 25, 2005 I had gotten my senior ring, bringing myself and the other 332 classmates of the Brother Martin class of 2006 into our final year of high school. That Saturday was when the…

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I had a different point of view of Katrina. Unlike many New Orleanians who suffered from the flood waters, my experience was from the Northshore of Lake Ponchartrain where the main destruction was from fallen trees. …

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I visited New Orleans the Thanksgiving right after Katrina, and I think that is what really made me decide to move here. On that trip my sisters who live here and I attended the second line parade for the city. What I…

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