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New Orleans – It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina was bing the Bay Bay coast as a storm of category 3. The disaster remembers not only for winds, but due to the ruined rise of the water that ravaged rural Louisiana Paries And he tore up through the heart of New Orleans.
The woman searches through storm shards in Buris, La, after landing hurricane Katrine 29. August 2005 years. The storm left widely spread over the Mississippi-Louisian’s border. (Sarah Alegre)
Katrina weakened before she made a free 29. August 2005, but she still hit the Louisian-Mississippi border as well as Category 3 storms. Storm surge flooded homes, took more than a thousand life and turned reality in the nightmare along the banks of the bay.
Memories from Louisiana
In the parish in plaques, Seven-year-old Corrine English lost almost everything when a small fishing town was swallowed by floodplains.
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“Part of me feels like it was yesterday for feeling thinking about us to take everything,” English said. “It just feels really raw.”
English said to remember the moment when her mother’s reaction was looking at news like Katrina’s eyes centered over the barrels, Louisiana.
“I think it’s when I realized that something really wrong,” she said, reminding her mother’s emotion. “This will not be something where we can only pack our suitcases back and get home.”
Sixty miles North, in Superdom in New Orleans, Corbett Reddoch, a member of the National Guard Louisiana from Buras, is expected to draw a storm in scenario similar to drills.
“You would come in, the storm would go, and then everyone would go,” Reddoch said.
But when the sacred failed, thousands of people were trapped inside because supplies were missing and the conditions have worsened quickly.
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“It was basically a three-day catching struggle … people didn’t know they were working,” Reddoch said.
For families in Bura, survival seemed different. The entire neighborhoods disappeared underwater, leaving residents and isolated.
“Not only were they through it as parents who looked at the TV all over the world,” English said, “they had to understand how to do so normal for two 7-year-olds and 10-year-olds.” “
Today, the only part of the childhood of the English language remaining the bear construction, it carried through the storm, a small reminder for survival and resilience.
“Sometimes he feels like yesterday,” English said. “The second time feels like it was 100 years ago, because my life changed like that … a lot. And it’s hard not to ask what my life would like it wouldn’t happen.”
Thinking with Mississippi
Palo wood rests on a damaged home in Gulfport, miss., After Hurricane, Aug. 2005 years. Storm winds and rush destroyed thousands of homes across the region
(Sarah Alegre)
In Mississippi, where Katrina’s storm They leveled most of the Bay coast, the community also reflects on what has changed and what it is not.
“Everyone had a loss,” Leonard Papania said, former Gulfport police chief. “In moments like these, don’t build a character, you demonstrate that,” he said.
Today, Gulfport is marked with blue skyPalm and new look. But two decades ago, the scene was unrecognizable. Papania, then the young lieutenant reminds the streets through the streets that could no longer recognize.
The demolished home is seen in Gulfport, Miss, after the Hurricane Katrina hit the bank coast. The entire neighborhoods leveled the storm growth.
(Sarah Alegre)
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“It was just a heart stop, the area I grew up, I lived here for the rest of my life,” Papania said. “You didn’t even know where you were.”
The husband and father of four also lost his home.
Rupert Laci, who helped coordinate law enforcement and emergency management during the storm, remembers alive.
“For Katrina, I had that vision that what I would see … I just didn’t realize it would be on steroids,” he said he would do. “
It was not the first storm of the monster he saw. As a child in 1969. He lived through Hurricane Camille, whose flattened entire community bumped.
“You have to understand the water force,” Lace said. “The buildings that survived Camille did not survive Katrina.”
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Today, emergency officials say Katrina lessons continue to lead their answer.
“We plan to plan potential omissions of our systems,” Matt said, an emergency leader in Gulfport. “We have paper backups, we have alternative forms of communication.”
Still, for the Papanese, the memories are still close.
“I always say I wouldn’t trade the experience I had in Katrina, but I absolutely don’t want to do it again,” he said.
