Share your reflections on Hurricane Katrina, five years later
Five years ago, on August 29, Hurricane Katrina began battering the Gulf Coast region, destroying homes, schools and businesses, and submerging the city of New Orleans under water. The deadly hurricane claimed over a thousand lives, left hundreds of thousands without homes, and caused tens of billions of dollars worth of damage, amounting to one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. Despite these challenges, the resilient spirit of the Big Easy has helped the city and its residents rebound and rebuild.
In 9 days we will commemorate the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a collection of videos on the YouTube homepage created by New Orleans area residents. In partnership with ABC 26 (WGNO), a local television station in New Orleans, we invite Gulf Coast region residents to reflect on the five years since Katrina and submit videos using YouTube Direct on ABC 26’s website. A selection of videos will also be featured on abc26.com, ABC 26’s YouTube channel, and broadcast on ABC 26.
Did you live through Hurricane Katrina and have a story to share? Upload your video here: http://www.abc26.com/community/rememberingkatrina
Olivia Ma, News Manager, recently watched “Vaccarella Family - Hurricane Katrina”
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If the New Orleans city government had spent the money given to them to protect themselves from flooding none of this would have happened. By the way it was your tax dollars given to them by our federal government that they diverted away from it's intended use of flood protection. Talk about a bail out! theomonk
On those days I wrote a poem:
11-S, New Orleans:
United we stand
Por © ClaudioSerraBrun.
Cuando el tsunami pavoroso,
la ola ubicua de la muerte,
Ante el humano barrido o hundido
el pueblo volvió,
El pueblo siempre estuvo allí.
Cuando el sueño fue muerte
en el terremoto instantáneo
y el humano se hundió en el vacío,
Luego el pueblo vino despierto
y alargó los brazos como pudo,
Siempre estuvo allí.
Cuando el fuego salió de las casas
como un demonio desatado
y en amenaza horrible
levantó al cielo
las cenizas humanas,
El pueblo sofocado
corre por agua al río
va de un lado a otro,
Siempre estuvo allí.
Y cuando enloqueció el aire
y se irguió en tromba
y en su carrera a la nada
trituró las casas,
Allí el humano estaba
con los brazos encogidos
sobre el corazón,
Y de pronto pareció que quedaba
sólo él de pie en el mundo,
lo más alto hasta el horizonte;
Pero hacia el centro
de las coordenadas del desamparo
el pueblo volvía,
surgía de abajo de las astillas
de lo que fueron sus casas
y acudía:
Porque el pueblo siempre estuvo allí.
Dedicado a todas las víctimas
de los desastres naturales y a todos los muertos
por el fanatismo y el terrorismo.
© 2005,Claudio Serra Brun. Valencia-España, BuenosAires-Argentina. Puede reproducir los textos propios, sólo citar Poesur, el link y el Autor:
www.poesur.com - poesur@gmail.com
11-S, New Orleans:
United we stand.
By © Claudio Serra Brun.
When the tsunami awful,
the ubiquitous wave of the death,
Faced with the human sweep or sunk
the people returned,
The people always were there.
When the dream was death
in the instant earthquake
and the human was sunk in the vacuum,
Then the people came awake
and lengthened the arms as could,
Always they were there.
When the fire left of the houses
as a unleashed demon
and in horrid threat
lifted to the sky
the human ashes,
The breathless people
run by water to the river
is going of a side to other,
Always they were there.
And when the air went crazy
and was erected in whirlwind
and in its race to the nothing
mashed the houses,
There the human was
with the shrunk arms
on the heart,
And suddenly seems
that he was the only human
remaining in the world,
standing as the highest thing
until the horizon;
But toward the center
of the coordinates of the abandonment
the people was returning,
stemming from down of the splinters
than what were their houses
and was attending:
Because people always were there.
Devoted to all the victims
of the natural disasters and to all died
by the fanaticism and the terrorism.
© 2005,Claudio SerraBrun. Valencia - Spain, BuenosAires -Argentina.
www.poesur.com - poesur.gmail.com
Publisher: © Claudio Serra Brun - Yecla-Murcia-Spain - BuenosAires-Argentina
You can reproduce my texts, only to cite Poesur, the link and the Author www.poesur.com - poesur.gmail.com
'sammy wordsmith', your concern is appreciated, but it's all about "woulda, shoulda, coulda". It has already happened and I only hope that it Never happens again... to anyone/community. The most positive attitude now is to focus on making Sure it never happens again and how to facilitate Recovery, Restoration, which by the way, is an 'On-Going' process Five Years Later. The need for HELP is unending. So many homes still have "Blue Plastic" covering parts of their roofs because most of the Insurance companies demanded a 'Deductible' that equalled the cost of replacing the roofs. Yet, HOPE survives!
I live in a community just outside of New Orleans, but I was born there and have numerous relatives who live/lived there. I'm a 12-year cancer survivor, but during Katrina was the only other time I Really believed that I might die - along with my pregnant daughter and her two small children. My hubby was with another of our daughters and her two small children at their apartment for physical and moral support, because she's a paraplegic. The thought was that we might All die since we waited too late to evacuate. The roads were all congested. So, I hope I never have to experience that again. The horrific nightmare of it all hasn't faded and my memories are fresh, but I don't have a video to share.
Yah we the peoples of bangladesh,we have a terrible experience about this,We didn't face it fully but that we faced it made huge number of people homeless.Killed number of peoples,animals.Destroyed crops,trees,house..so the damages that our country faced that is unthinkable.......
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