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\"1200 people trapped in N.O. hospital need evacuation\"\r\n8-30-2005\r\nemail from Bill Quigley\r\n\r\nDear Friends: There are about 1300 people here who\r\nneed help. I would appreciate it if you could\r\nforward this…

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\"Email from EMT Recounts Initial Aftermath\"\r\n9-2-2005\r\nanonymously posted\r\n\r\nHi everyone,\r\n\r\nAs a few of you may have heard, I recently left my job as an EMT in Baltimore and moved to Austin, TX, to accept…

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WHERE\'S MY GOD DAMNED GAMEBOY and OTHER STORIES\r\nBy Jared Gore\r\n\r\nPROLOGUE\r\n I really don\'t know where to start with all this...while Hurricane Katrina did bring disruption and destruction into my life it…

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Another person who escaped New Orleans by leaving the city two days in advance of Katrina, I visited family in North Alabama. My brother and parents were kind enough to house me until I knew more of what would happen at…

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My Katrina Story\r\nAubrey Kane\r\n \r\n\r\nTwo nights before Katrina hit my boyfriend and I sat at our house on Severn Ave. in Metairie glued to the television. As we watched the category 5 storm churn angrily towards…

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In late December of 2004 a great tsunamis swept across the Indiana Ocean killing thousands of the Sri Lankan population. Living on the water on the North side of the Pontchatrain Lake for all 20 years of my life, this…

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Katrina Story\r\n In August of 2005, the city of New Orleans and it\'s surrounding areas was about to be changed for the rest of most of our lives. Here is my story, although not nearly as devastating as others.\r\n My…

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I have never been through a hurricane, or, ok, I had never been through a hurricane. This is the only evidence I can think to offer when someone asks why I stayed. Somehow, I have missed every hurricane that has…

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i would like to start by writing that my story is not extremely exciting, and i don\'t remember many details. my story is not very moving nor is it compelling or probably not extremly interesting to anyone but me.…

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Keith Pyburn\r\n1/23/08\r\n\r\n\r\nSelf Destruction\r\n\r\n\r\n My life in the summer before hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana was one filled with effortless happiness. I had just purchased my first house in old Metairie,…

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