Once we had evacuated  for hurricane katrina I felt as if it was just another hurricane and I would be back on Tuesday at school with my friends but to my surprise I was totally wrong. My family and I ended up going to to Shreveport, LA with our extended family. I never realized that being [...]

Wind, storm, rain, and hurricane were not in my dictionary until I moved to the United States of America. I didn’t know the meaning of hurricane until August 29, 2005. I am originally from Egypt  and I moved to New Orleans just a year before Katrina hit. It was such a scary moment for me and [...]

I’m sure as everyone has started the blog, I’ll go ahead and say it too: there are so many problems facing the world today that it is hard to narrow it down to just three. The three biggest problems I have chosen cover very broad range categories because I feel that the biggest problems in [...]

There are millions of problems plaguing the world today. It would be impossible, yet an extreme miracle, for us to resolve each and every one of them. So, for now, we must tackle the ones we can to make some type of improvement in the world.  The 3 major problems that we need to focus [...]

There are many issues that the world struggles with , but just to name a few I will discuss the outlooks of  violence, poverty, and the economy. These three issues are  most relevant and are the biggest problems vital in our every day society. Violence, poverty, and the economy all make a significant connection to one another. The most [...]

The world is a place that has been deteriorating as time progresses.  Nowadays the world contains so many problems it is physically impossible to improve each and every one of them.  Many people try to develop different projects that will help improve our world.  In my opinion there are three main problems that severely put [...]

Before Hurricane Katrina I was a junior at Cabrini High School. My family and I had been living in New Orleans east since I was about 5 years old. Usually when the city is threatened with a hurricane, my family and I always “Ride it Out.” But with all the hype about Katrina we decided [...]

There are many problems in the world today that need a considerable amount of attention and improvement in order to make our nation as a whole a lot better. The three major issues that I feel need immediate action are crime, the position of our economy, and the homeless society. All of these problems and [...]

 On August 22, 2005, I remember watching  the news as they predicted which way it could go. It was to soon for evacuation but not to soon to make plans to evacuate.Our initial effort crumbled because of recent events regarding lost love ones. Our second plan was to evacuate to Wiscosin where my family is [...]

            My first memorable experience with a hurricane was during hurricane Katrina.  I lived in a small country outside of New Orleans so we did feel some effects but it was as bad as those living in New Orleans.  My family knew the risk of not evacuating even though everyone warned us of how bad [...]

Of the 23 years that i have lived in New Orleans, hurricane Katrina was the most memorable to me. When katrina just got into the gulf my family didn’t want to evacuate. They figured that it was going to do the same thing that most big storms did, [...]

Sunday August 28, 2005 my mom woke both my brothers and I up to pack and clean the house because we were leaving that day to go to Dallas, Texas for the storm. While my mom sat in the living room on the computer making hotel reserves for my grandmother, aunts, uncles, and also for [...]

My hurricane story is not as bad as most.  We did not lose much.  I did not even know a hurricane was coming until the day before it made landfall.  I remember the weekend very clear because a lot of family events were going on that weekend.  We were having a family reunion.  It did [...]

In August 2005, I was a junior in high school and really eager to start a new year.  The Friday before Katrina made landfall I was at my high school football game, I never even knew there was a hurricane near Louisiana.  When I got home that night my parents told me to begin packing [...]

My experience Monday August 29, 2005 was way different than what  most people in Louisina  went through. My encounter was different because I’m from Atlanta, Ga and I remember going to school that day at Henry W. Grady High School. Everything went normal that day until I went home and turned on my televison. As [...]

My Hurricane Katrina experience is very different from many Katrina stories. My Katrina experience is not the traumatic swimming through flood waters, sleeping on the pavement of the Ernest M. Morial Convention Center tale. Nor is it the typical 36 people living in a 2 bedroom apartment and the 24 hour ride to Baton Rouge [...]

I never had to experience a hurricane or the things that come with until I moved to New Orleans. Of course, I knew what I was getting myself into when I came here but I hoped I would not have to ever evacuate. I live in the very flat and very landlocked city of Indianapolis, [...]

My Hurricane Katrina story was life changing. I will never forget that August day when the meteorologist came on the news and said that the hurricane was heading directly for New Orleans. Since I am from Chalmette, that was a scary statement and major concern for my family. We knew that we were [...]

My hurricane story really is not all that interesting. For Katrina, I was a freshman at LSU. I was born and raised in Baton Rouge and truly pre-Katrina never planned on leaving. However, two days after stepping off the plane from senior trip to Cancun, Mexico (also before I ever stepped a day in [...]