Just as I start to write this first blog entry, the fact that this day, August 29, 2009, is the actual fourth year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina comes to my mind.  When this event took place, I was in high school also beginning my second year just as I’m embarking on my second year [...]

A few days before Hurricane Katrina, I left with my mom’s side of the family and we stayed by a cousin who lives in Lecompte, La which is about forty minutes outside of Alexandria. My dad and a few of his relatives came the night before Katrina hit New Orleans. I was kind of glad that [...]

Kelly Allison
            My name is Kelly Dale Allison, and I’m sure that just as any other New Orleanian, my Hurricane Katrina story is one filled with times of hardship, loss, and unimaginable uncertainty.  I can just remember being a sophomore at Cabrini High School and hearing that yet another hurricane was headed our way.  As [...]

Natural disaster is a believable tragedy for people, such as deaths, property destruction, family separated. Beside the California earth quake, tidal wave in Philippine, hurricane Katrina made too much damage to New Orleans people who are still fear when someone reminds that [...]

   Hurricane Katrina was not much of a devastation in the area of Louisiana where I resided.  The hardship that I faced during Katrina was having to watch the news and see what was happening while knowing that some family members had not gotten out before it hit. On the other hand, Hurricane Gustav was [...]