received a phone call that Saturday morning from my mom. She was frantic explaining for me to leave town. A few friends and I decided to make our way to Baton Rouge to stay with a few friends. Not really knowing or understanding the significance and extremity of this storm. We were going for a hurricane party, but little did we know. We stayed in Baton Rouge for about a day and a half after the levees broke with no electricity with eight 22 year old guys. It wasn\'t fun without air conditioning. Tempers started flaring and everyone was just about to get tired of each other, so I decided to up and leave and not get involved.\r\n\r\nI started to Houston to go and stay with my girlfriend and her family meanwhile getting phone calls from my family in Dallas. I arrived in Houston to find there were 8 people in that house also. It wasn\'t nearly as bad as Baton Rouge because there was air conditioning, television, and always a home cooked meal. In the meantime I felt as though I needed to see my family so I hopped on a flight to Dallas.\r\n\r\nI arrived in Dallas in my mom and step-dad\'s house to find that there were 11 people in a three bedroom house. We lived there for about 2 weeks until everyone started getting very annoyed with each other and we just had to find some way to get back to our normal lives, not knowing if we could.\r\n\r\nI packed up my bags flew back to Houston to get my car and decided to drive home and see what was going on. When I got back to Metairie I found an unscaved house, with electricity, and television. I couldn\'t believe it and am very thankful.\r\n