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I was in 7th grade at the time of Hurricane Katrina, at St. Christopher Elementary School in Metairie. I do live in Metairie, but I remember when the hurricane was finally targeted at New Orleans, my school teachers and…

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Hurricane Katrina was a devasting storm that affected the lives of many directly and indirectly. I am a person who was affected indirectly by the storm. My hometown which is an hour and a half away from the City of New…

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My father built this house at 7510 Sheffield St. in New Orleans East right before I was born in 1982. Though my own rental home in Lakeview got 9 1/2 feet of water and I lost all my belongings, somehow this hit "home"…

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Whitney's Big Hurricane Katrina Adventure
When Hurricane Katrina was stirring in the gulf, Whitney was a carefree 18 year old with her own apartment which she shared with her boyfriend Justin and her beloved older…

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My story starts out the same as many other New Orleanians, a hastily decided evacuation on a Saturday night while sitting at a bar in Bucktown staring at the weather channel. The choice was made that myself, wife, and…

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The Hurricane was unforgettable. I was 15 years old and had lived in the New Orleans East before the storm. I hated everything about the storm and the media. The night before the storm it was wonderful. We stayed across…

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My story is like most: unfortunate and heart- aching, but in many ways it\'s uplifting and somewhat different. Unlike many people, I went to the epicenter of devastation, rather than leaving a city that I loved. I moved…

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Most societies have this funny habit of bisecting its collective life around a single traumatic event: wars, famines, disasters. There\'s always a \"before\" and an \"after\". For New Orleans, and certainly for myself…

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I remember watching the storm from my grandpa\'s car port. He wasn\'t there because he was having surgery in a hospital in New Orleans (I can\'t remember which one). My mom, dad, and sister were all with me. I was a…

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