After being alerted that Hurricane Katrina would hit near New Orleans, I left work early and began boarding up the windows of my house in New Orleans East and made the normal preparations to my belongings as I do yearly. After I finished boarding up the windows the rest of the day was spent raising the furniture and putting irreplaceable items upstairs in the closets. As soon as I was finished, I secured my home and I was off to Memphis, Tennessee. \r\n After a 6 hour drive I arrived at the hotel. When pulling up I noticed that the hotel was a dump and was located in a bad location. The building was in dire need of a paint job. By the look of the pool, it does not looked like it had been used for many years because of the decaying blue walls and scattered missing tiles. To top the pool off, the hotel used it to store its old furniture. The pool contained multiple mattresses, chairs, and tables. The worst part was that the hotel did not offer free wireless internet so the residents of the hotel would sit on the edge of the building facing a nearby hotel to pick up the other hotel\'s internet. Even with these deficiencies I was content. The management was nice at the hotel was gave my family a discount on the rooms and told us we could stay as long as we wanted, but after two weeks we had to get out. The reason we ended up leaving the hotel only after 2 weeks is that a woman shot her husband in a room not far from mine that morning. We left as soon as possible, because that moment was hell.\r\n\r\n We ended up staying at my Aunt\'s house in Denham Springs. With 12 people, 5 dogs, and 2 ferrets it was a little crowded in the somewhat small 3-room house. But being crowded was not a problem after the disaster of a hotel that we stayed in the 2 weeks prior.\r\n