Archive for August, 2007
Saturday, August 25th, 2007: 973 words
First, I must say that I don’t really have much a hurricane story. It was fall 2005 of my senior year in high school. It was the beginning of football season. This was one of the most exciting times of the year for me. I was an active member of the band. It [...]
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007: 1086 words
My Katrina Story is not that interesting. I found out about the hurricane on Friday, I was playing a game of cards with my friends. I proceeded to call my cousin. I told her that there was a hurricane headed towards the Gulf; she told me not to worry about it, that her roommate thought [...]
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007: 1057 words
My hurricane story is similar to the stories of many others. Evacuating for the storm was not so much of a great change for me; it could be better described as taking an informal visit back to my hometown. On Saturday, August 27, 2005 my parents had called me and demanded that I [...]
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Friday, August 24th, 2007: 1101 words
I am blessed to say that I do not have a horrific hurricane story! I was lucky enough to have a ticket bought for me the day before the hurricane hit New Orleans. My floor was alerted about the Hurricane on Friday, a couple of days before the storm. Once Sunday came, [...]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007: 1541 words
My hurricane story? My family and I were the last to leave the New Orleans Westbank via the GNO bridge. Our decision to flee the city was mostly last minute, which is why we left the city a little after 11PM, just five or six hours before the storm was due.
I didn’t even [...]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007: 6 words
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