Many people experienced great hardship during Hurricane Katrina, however I did not. I consider myself one of the lucky because Hurricane Katrina did not have a profoundly negative effect on me. At the time, I lived in a suburb in New Orleans\' East. My house was two stories, brick and we had reinforced windows.\r\n\r\n When Huricane Katrina hit in 2005, I\'d just graduated high school that May and I\'d completed my first week of college. Hurricane Katrina was more of an inconvenience for me. After New Orleans was closed to locals and I saw the damage, I knew I wasn\'t going to be returning home soon. So, a friend and I began looking for schools that were accepting students affected by the hurricane. Grambling State University was the first school my friend and I found, so we transferred there.\r\n\r\n After the city was reopened, my mother and brother went to our home and retrieved the items they could. They later mailed my things to me. Weeks after my mother and brother went to our home, two friends and I drove down to New Orleans from Grambling, LA. When I arrived at my home, it looked the same. However, there was water damage on the first floor of my home. I went upstairs to my room and everything was as I left it. But, there were muddy boot stains on my white comforter and my jewelery was missing. \r\n\r\n I was very fortunate not to have lost anything beyond things of monetary value. I know there are people still struggling to rebuild their lives and I feel lucky everyday. Overall, Hurricane Katrina was more of an inconvenience for me.