My Personal reflection on Hurricane Katrina\r\n\r\nHurricane Katrina made a landfall in Aug. 29,2005 in New Orleans. Looking at pictures and stories told by survivors and visitors of this horrible American tragedy will bring you in tears automatically. I can not even imagine what these poor people went through even if I try to put myself in their shoes. According to a round estimate by reporters 1,800 people died in this heartbreaking disaster. The gulf coast was reported to be devastated completely. People rising out of the ashes of Katrina. Dead bodies floating everywhere few days after the hurricane. People pleading and begging for help desperately. Many families isolated and left behind with no reason to live for. Thousands of people sitting on the roofs holding signs, asking for immediate help, hoping that a rescue team will find them by a helicopter. Sick and exhausted people lying around in the parking lots, dying because of heat and no electricity. Hundreds gathering and waiting in a facility for evacuation from a wrecked city. These are just a few incidents as a results of this catastrophe. \r\nThe life of victims of hurricane Katrina have been turned around completely. Its sorrowing how much pain they have to got through even after the hurricane. Although as the first anniversary of the hurricane ( which was about 2 weeks ago) large areas of the city were reported to have just began to become renewed by workers the change has still remained very slow and time consuming. Almost all the survivals of this tragedy are still jobless. It will surely take them a long time to go back to where they where before the hurricane. Separated from their financial distress imagine how much emotional suffering they have to overcome from loosing their loved ones. Ones that have moved to other cities with no relatives have to start and stand on their two feel to handle their livings. \r\n

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