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It is hard to know where to begin re:Katrina in my(our) lives...My husband and I are both from New Orleans and moved up North--New Hampshire--in our late twenties. However, we will always be New Orleanians--no matter…

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my life is very much different now that i moved away from home,after the monster Katrina hit hard. no only did i have to leave for a hurricane that was coming to tear my life apart. i was six months pregnant with my…

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After seeing the animals stranded due to Katrina and the levee break, I could not simply sit by and watch. I met two other women online in my area (Atlanta) who felt the same way, and we decided we were going to offer…

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It Has Been Almost A Year-----Aug. 27, 2006\r\n Memories cannot fade. Hurricane Ernesto is barreling towards the Gulf, and the very thought that the Katrina nightmare can all happen again is unfathomable. \r\n …

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Media Coverage. I think that New Orleans received too much of Media Coverage. St. Bernard, Plaquemines, and Mississippi Gulf Coast were basically wiped out compared to the city, and I don\'t include the ninth ward in the…

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mid-August 2006.\r\nContingencies define daily life in post-Katrina New Orleans. \r\nAn unknown man on our neighbor’s porch arouses my suspicion. He stays for more than two hours, alternately nodding off and pacing. A…

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This will be the hardest memory to retrieve, as I caught the wind of Hurricane Katrina\'s blast in my town of Hammond, LA, a thirty-five minute drive from New Orleans where my friends, family and I had lived.\r\n\r\nThe…

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I decided to leave because I knew they would have damage because of previous storms. Where I live at it floods for heavy thunderstorms.

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I was at home during hurricane katrina. My family happened to come into town before the hurricane to visit. Seeing the hurricane warning on the news, we thought it was going to just blow over like hurricane Ivan.…

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A year later... \r\n\r\nMy great grandmother passed earlier this year as result of Katrina. The long haul to GA was too much for her delicate condition. The 14 hour ride did more damage to her body than any previous…

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