2005 Hurricane Season -- Your Thoughts, Messages and Stories
September 2005 Archive
Youth Rally to Help Hurricane Survivors!
And you can help, too!
A 10-year-old in Iowa had a great idea: Trick or Treat for Loose Change to go to the American Red Read More...
My Hurricane Story
I was in Jefferson parish the day the stom hit. It was so flooded, the power was out and the hotel was running out of Read More...
No Gas and No Police Help
Tuesday morning at school while attending Lamar University I discovered there was a significantly large hurricane coming towards Texas and it seems that Beaumont was Read More...
Katrina's Impact on my Family's Life
9/9/2005
I sit and type on the 40th anniversary of Hurricane Betsy, I realize that again my family has lost everything, not homes, not belongings, but Read More...
Katrina Survivor
I lost my house, everything I own including a car to Katrina. My job is gone as well. I have 20 family members Read More...
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME FIND MY MOTHER
She is an 85 y.o. Alzheimers patient and was last seen at Chalmette hospital where she was in for a test. She was a Read More...
Hurricane Katrina
I lived in Biloxi, MS on the Tchoutacabouffa River (pronounced Choo-ta-ca-buff) and unfortunately decided to stay after consulting with neighbors who were there during Camille, Read More...
Missing Stories
So much for women and children first. Despite having several days of notice, there was no plan for a total and effective evacuation of Read More...
Baby Furniture Needed!
My daughter lost all of her things in Hurricane Katrina. She's 9 months pregnant. This is her first child and I was looking for anyone Read More...
With the Animals
I spent the Sunday and Monday of Katrina, with the animals at a small animal hospital in Metairie. After that, we spent our time Read More...
American Cancer Society Help to Displaced Cancer Patients
"The American Cancer Society is offering information to help cancer patients affected by Hurricane Katrina, as well as their caregivers, deal with the devastating impact Read More...
Baby Katrina
I'm 9 months pregnant. I lived 2 blocks from the ocean in Biloxi, MS until Hurricane Katrina hit. My husband and I evacuated, only for Read More...
Survival
My boyfriend and his Dad were visiting a friend when the Hurricane struck. When I heard about it I went into the state only to Read More...
The Flickr Hurricane Katrina Relief Auction
The Flickr.com community has responded to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina by starting a group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/katrina_auction/
More than 400 flickr members have selflessly donated their photographic Read More...
HURRICANE DIABETES
Medical Supplies
The American Diabetes Association remains in contact with the American Red Cross, and with pharmaceutical and diabetes supply companies, and has been assured that Read More...
Ochsner Outreach: Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Donation Memo from Patrick Quinlan, M.D.
Monday, September 05, 2005 8:21 am
Employees, Families and Friends,
We hope you and your family are safe following the Read More...
How Hurricane Katrina Affected Me in Mobile, AL
My story is not the typical hurricane destruction type. My husband, daughter and two Japanese Chin dogs went to Birmingham, AL to visit our Read More...
Katrina Aftermath
This is a "feel good" story, if that is possible in this horrible situation. Contrary to all of the news footage you see of Read More...
John Stennis Space Center,MS.
My name is Gary Burdorf. I'm an employee of Pratt@Whittney / Rocketdyne here at our test facility, the John Stennis Space Center,MS. I rode the Read More...
A Medic's Work
By Suzy Barile
"Don't answer right away," my husband instructs, his voice breaking up over the miles and through a borrowed cell phone. "But there's a Read More...
A "Great" Beginning
My name is Lindsey and I recently started my freshman year in college at Florida A&M University. My family and I are from LaPlace, LA Read More...
Many amazing rescues
Our friends were trapped in a three-story home in the middle of Gentilly -- a really flooded area. They were airlifted to safety Thursday, September Read More...
Flood Coming
How can anyone complain about the government not helping?
We were given bus rides at no charge (rich or poor).
We went to Houston and Read More...
About.com Sci Fi Guide Gets Self Out of New Orleans
I turned off the AC, unplugged appliances (including my beloved TiVo), and cleaned up my backyard.
I shoved - er, placed the cat in Read More...
Katrina
I live in Virginia now but Louisiana is my HOME. My children were born there - I lived there, went to school, got married, had Read More...
Hurricane Katrina Dispatch
To Whom It May Concern:
Those of us who did leave the City before the hurricane are scattered
and waiting to return to begin again. Reports of Read More...
Leave a Message for the Victims
Hurricane Katrina has taken many lives and left so many others without shelter, in dangerous living conditions or displaced from their homes. Our thoughts and Read More...
