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Katrina Our Story
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Author : Mary S. Landry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Katrina Our Story written by Mary S. Landry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Katrina, Our Story is a journal by Mary S Landry detailing the events brought about by Hurricane Katrina in the area north of New Orleans. While much of Louisiana and Mississippi suffered, this first-hand account through the eyes of one person explains the extreme highs and lows of living through such a life-changing experience. The author describes the emotional and stressful choices made each day as she and her family struggled to keep their family, friends, home and belongings safe. It describes the despair and joy, as the storm brought about the best and the worst in humanity. Finally, it sums up the hope that the storm would create a new and better society as the residents remember Katrina.
Katrina Our Story
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006*
Katrina Our Story written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006* with Hurricane Katrina, 2005 categories.
Katrina
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Author : Andy Horowitz
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-07
Katrina written by Andy Horowitz and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-07 with History categories.
Winner of the Bancroft Prize Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year “The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina—the civic calamity, not the storm itself—as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature.” —Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster can be traced back nearly a century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing near the Mississippi, on lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers made it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than for African Americans. He explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana’s oil industry have been distributed unevenly, prompting dreams of abundance and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. “Masterful...Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we’re willing—and unwilling—to protect.” —New York Review of Books “If you want to read only one book to better understand why people in positions of power in government and industry do so little to address climate change, even with wildfires burning and ice caps melting and extinctions becoming a daily occurrence, this is the one.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Beyond Katrina
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Author : Natasha Trethewey
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2015-08-01
Beyond Katrina written by Natasha Trethewey and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-01 with Travel categories.
Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Trethewey’s attempt to understand and document the damage to Gulfport started as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in the Virginia Quarterly Review. For Beyond Katrina, Trethewey expanded this work into a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home. In this new edition, Trethewey looks back on the ten years that have passed since Katrina in a new epilogue, outlining progress that has been made and the challenges that still exist.
Our Stories
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Author : Cable News Network
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Our Stories written by Cable News Network and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Hurricane Katrina, 2005 categories.
Wren
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Scribble Us
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Wren written by and has been published by Scribble Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Genealogy categories.
Katrina Blues
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: America Star Books
Release Date : 2015-10-22
Katrina Blues written by and has been published by America Star Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with categories.
Our story, Katrina Blues begins around the time when Hurricane Katrina plunged the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast into pure agony. Katrina Blues is the story of a storm and its aftermath that became the worst natural disaster in a century. Our story centers on Rose Parker and her family, her husband, two young boys and a baby girl. They watched on television day after day of images depicting the harsh existence, showing exhausted families and children stepping around corpse while they begged. With total chaos and no sign of law and order, the Parker family made their decision to leave the area. The city had become a watery nightmare. It was a rainy night when they left, while driving down a wet and slippery highway, suddenly there's a lighting flash, a tree falls onto the pavement and a car out of control plunges into a rising river stream and is suddenly caught up in a strong current which carries the car further downstream. The Parker family in their attempt to escape the effects of the hurricane now find themselves a victim, pull into a vortex of misery that would shatter their dreams and tear their lives apart. Katrina Blues is a story that will take you beyond the comprehensible; it will defy your imagination and expose the unthinkable. Katrina Blues is about affairs of the heart, an exciting thrilling mixture of love, family values, romance, heartbreak, humor, suspense, drama and tragedy. Katrina Blues is a thriller that will sweep you away and take you on an adventure unlike any you've ever experience without leaving the comfort of your own home.
Not Just The Levees Broke
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Author : Phyllis Montana-Leblanc
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-09-02
Not Just The Levees Broke written by Phyllis Montana-Leblanc and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-02 with History categories.
Called "one of the rawest specimens of classic Nawlins spitfire you'll ever find" by Newsweek, and featured in Spike Lee's HBO documentary When the Levees Broke, Phyllis Montana-Leblanc gives an astounding and poignant account of how she and her husband lived through one of our nation's worst disasters, and continue to put their lives back together. New Orleans Hurricane Katrina survivor Phyllis Leblanc reveals moment by moment the impending doom she and her family experienced during one of the greatest disasters in contemporary American history. The initial weather forecast, the public warnings from officials, and then the increasingly devastating developments -- the winds and rain, the rising waters -- Not Just the Levees Broke begs the question, What would you do in a life-and-death situation with your family and neighbors facing the ultimate test of character? Not Just the Levees Broke is a portrayal of the human spirit at its best -- the generosity of family, neighbors, and strangers; the depth of love that one can hold for another; the power to help and heal others.
Katrina
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Author : Pearson Foundation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Katrina written by Pearson Foundation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Bay Saint Louis (Miss.) categories.
De Monte Love
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Author : Rodney Vance
language : en
Publisher: Visikid Books
Release Date : 2007
De Monte Love written by Rodney Vance and has been published by Visikid Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
De'monte Love, a six-yr-old boy caught in the grips of the Hurricane Katrina storm with his family and others who lived in his apartment building showed true heroism - taking care of six-younger children, by himself he and the other children where dropped of by a rescue helicopter without any adults to help them. De'monte leventually got the attention of an ambulance driver who helped get De'Monte and the other children to a shelter where after a few days the children were all reunited with their parents who were resucued sometime after thier children.