I was living in Larose, Louisiana at the time Hurricane Katrina was on her way to Louisiana. My mother, brother, and I evacuated with family to New Iberia, and my father stayed in Larose with my grandparents. My grandparents didn\'t evacuate because they felt their home was sturdy enough to last through a hurricane, and my father didn\'t want to leave his trawl boat. We were in our hotel room in New Iberia when we heard about the tremendous amount of damage Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans and other areas along the coast. After seeing the footage of the damage done to New Orleans, we were worried that Larose would look the same. We were even more worried because our home is less than a mile away from the Intercoastal Canal and it always caused our street to flood, even in simple thunderstorms.\r\n We left New Iberia the day after Katrina made her landing, and once we arrived to HWY 308, we saw that almost every telephone pole was down, and the highway was filled with debris. As we continued to drive to Larose, we could see trawl boats freely floating in the bayou because they were not tied down strong enough. Thankfully, my father\'s boat wasn\'t one of them. Finally, we arrived at our home. Our oak tree was pulled out of the ground, our roof shingles and vinyl siding were scattered all over our yard, and we didn\'t have electricity. Thankfully, that was the only damage we had.\r\n Larose is located in Lafourche Parish, and it\'s a place where everyone knows everyone and everyone helps everyone. My family and I spent every day helping our our neighbors, friends, and family members repair the damage to their homes, land, and boats. There were only a few homes that had generators in our neighborhood, and those neighbors offered their freezers to everyone to store their food. This was very important to my family because we kept a freezer filled with shrimp, and since my father is a trawler, this was the shrimp that would feed my family between trawling seasons.\r\n We slept on my father\'s trawl boat for about a week because he had a generator on his boat. Our home didn\'t get electricity for about a week, and we were one of the first places along Bayou Lafourche to get electricity. We made daily trips to our civic center to get bags of ice and mre\'s, and we did this until our supermarkets and gas stations opened up. Eventually, everything was back to normal in a couple of months.