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From as early in life as I can remember, my family and I have spent every Fourth of July and several weekends of the summer at our camp on the meeting place of Lake Catherine and Lake Pontchartrain. It wasn\'t a palace…

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For eight years I lived on the Navy Base in Belle Chasse, LA. Anytime there was a tropical storm coming our way, the base would get ready to evacuate. It was very normal for my family and I to have to leave for a small…

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When hurricane Rita hit the Louisiana coast, I was a sophomore attending Oberlin High School. For those of you who don\'t know, Oberlin is a little town about one hour north of Lake Charles, Louisiana. During that year I…

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I didnt go through Katrina, as I was in Florida but I came afterwards with my chruch youth group on a mission trip. We helped lots of people, and in doing so we all got to see the devestation Katrina had left behind and…

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My family is a large one. Dad, Mom, five kids, and Rambo, our yellow lab.\r\n\r\nAugust 27, 2005, was just another Saturday. My sister, mom, and I were at a ladies\' tea. My brothers and dad were probably chillin\' on…

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My Katrina experience was very eventful. I felt homeless jumping from hotel to hotel from city to city. Having to watch the levees break in New Orleans made me very emotional and wonder if still would have a home. I hope…

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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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