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After evacuating to Beaumont, TX for Katrina, my entire family decided to leave to go to Atlanta where my brother lived. My mom, sister, neice, and I stayed behind until they were able to find a place to stay. On the day…

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The Saturday before the hurricane my family and I found ourselves lost in northern Alabama and unable to find a motel to stay in. Sunday we finally found an open room in a hotel in Starkville, Mississippi, the home of…

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It was my mom, my brother, my two sisters, and I and we went with the rest of my mom\'s family up to a friend of theirs dad\'s house in Mississippi. The plan was to get out of the away of Katrina\'s path, but We…

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In late 2004, I was mobilized with an Infantry unit from Biloxi, MS, and by December 2004 I was in Kuwait. In Iraq by January, we maintained a position with an assigned AO, with a small patrol base as our living…

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I was 16 during Katrina. I went where my parents went. My mom decided that she wanted to ride out the storm in a hotel room downtown. Being a Cat 3 did not raise much of an alarm to us. The weekend was filled with…

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We live in the tiny town where Katrina first came ashore in Louisiana. \r\nBuras, Lousiana. \r\nOur story is epic. It is a story of the fight for and the survival of a whole town.\r\nFor those of us who lived here prior…

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View of my house and lot from our neighbor\'s rooftop.

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