There are many misconceptions about what happened and why people did not leave.\u00a0 There were many elderly and disabled people in New Orleans that lived on a fixed income and Hurricane Katrina came at the end of the month.\u00a0 They had neither the means nor the money to leave.<\/p>\n
Another misconception was that people shot at their rescuers.\u00a0 What really happened is that people were trapped.\u00a0 They saw boats and helicopters pass them by.\u00a0 They had guns, so they shot in the air to attract attention to the fact that they were in need of help.\u00a0 This has been a means of drawing attention in many situations.<\/p>\n
My own story was that my daughter was going through a complicated pregnancy and had two you daughters, aged 6 and 2.\u00a0 She was scheduled to be admitted the day Hurricane Katrina hit and could not be moved without assistance.\u00a0 I staid with her and my grandchildren to assist in any means I could.<\/p>\n
People responsible had already been contacted about my daughter’s condition and no one responded before the Hurricane, so we had to ride it out.\u00a0 I constructed a shelter for my grandchildren inside the apartment in case the roof fell.\u00a0 It was a good thing I did because it did fall.\u00a0 The storm was over and we felt relieved.\u00a0 We did not know that the levee had broke.<\/p>\n
When I checked outside I saw the water was rising.\u00a0 At first I did not think much about it because it happens after a Hurricane sometimes.\u00a0 We decided to just wait until the water receded.<\/p>\n
When after a couple of days and the water just kept rising instead of receding we decided we had to get out.\u00a0 I carried my 6 year old grand daughter on my shoulders and my daughter carried the two year old.\u00a0 We walked through water than was up to our waist most of the time and even higher.<\/p>\n
We finally reached a point where there was a National Guard truck that took us to the Super Dome.\u00a0 That is another story to be told later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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