Personal Narrative: Hurricane Katrina

“Hurricane Maria has been officially named a category five storm. It has torn its way through Puerto Rico, leaving the island without electricity and fresh water.” Shocked, I turned up the radio. The reporter continued, “Many buildings and homes have been destroyed due to powerful 155 mph winds…” My insides dropped as if someone cut the strings of a marionette. Trying to control my ragged breathing, I pulled into the parking lot of my new school.

Imagine just coming back from evacuation to your house looking great on the outside but when you walk in it is a horror. When hurricane Katrina was on her way here, my family and I evacuated to Chattanooga, Tennessee, which only took about a good eight hours, but with traffic it took about twelve. Once we were cleared to go home we came back, which thankfully only took about ten hours. I will be writing about how after Katrina my family and I had to stay in one house for about a week and a half.

I am located in Tallahassee a terrible hurricane recently passed thru when it did it knocked power out all over the city I was without power for over a week as well as cable so I was unable to complete assignmentsy phone was dead and on top of that a tree fell on my car so I was unable to charge my phone to get in contact with anybody.

One day it was a normal day when it got really dark all the clouds were getting together and when you herd the lightning go BOOM!!.And everyone was scared and they all screamed when there was a lot I am telling you a lot of WIND .It was really winded outside and when the ground started,to form into a little cloud shape and people know it was a tornado that was going to happens and it went all around the house and they all went into trash.

Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 23rd, 2005. It was considered a category five hurricane and complete devastated the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, which is my home. At the time I was a merely five years old, but I remember the aftermath. The coming home to empty slabs where houses use to stand, neighbors who had disappeared or perished with the storm, and the constant fear of looting and criminal acts happening in the small devastated town of Waveland. All of this struck home in the heart of a young Landon Brady, and always has. At a very young age I was forced to adapt and strengthen my will, for my entire environment had turned upside down. Before the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina I lived in a medium size home and went on with life as any five year old

I was walking my dog, Max on a warm sunny day with only a few clouds in the sky through my city, Miami, Florida, and at the time I was only 11, but my life was about to change and one of the scariest things that I would ever experience was about to take place. That day had felt like it would be normal, and like any other day, I went to school, saw my friends, came home, and did homework with my little brother Everett. Then, like I do every day, took my dog for a walk.

I was around seven or eight when Hurricane Katrina hit. I do not remember much about the event besides what the news said and what my family relayed to me. I had been living in Georgia for about a year or two when Hurricane Katrina had hit. Being so young I was not as knowledgable about the disaster until I was older. It was hard for me to be sympathetic because I was ignorant to what was truly going on. I remember my mom watching the news and telling my older brother and I to be more grateful for things but I never truly understood why. I remember lots of people moving to Georgia especially to my neighborhood. There was one family that I remember vividly. They lived in the same building as me, they had three boys, a girl, and a dog. They were

It was November of 55’, me and Lee were headed to the gas station while bumping some Elvis. Now November in New Orleans is hurricane season, so our mothers were on full alert. We pulled into the gas station, Lee’s uncle worked there, so we normally just got our stuff for free. I loaded up on Mars bars, and Lee just talked to his uncle. See me and Lee were off to go shooting, Lee was the sharpest shooter one could ever meet. Down in the old mountain side we would park and set up shop. Having recently rained, the path there was awfully muddy so we decided just to grab our stuff and walk. On our way up to our spot we ran into our good friend Rafael while he was jogging. Rafael had never gone shooting, so we invited him along. Rafael turned out to be not much of a shooter, he said, “I’ll just stick with Lee for my safety”. We left, gave Rafael a ride home, and called it a day.

It was 5:00 AM me and my brother was at our grandparents house. Suddenly we woke up to hard heavy rain pounding the window like rocks were being thrown at it. We got up and went into the living room and sat down. My grandparents just informed us that Hurricane Katrina had just made landfall. What we didn’t know is that we were all about to be changed forever. I still see myself sitting on that couch and listening to the wind whistle outside but not being able to see anything outside because it was so dark.

In my town in Moore Oklahoma meteorologists predictions weren't always right. This being said people don't really take a tornado threat or warning seriously. In 2013, there haven't been very many major tornadoes since May of 1999. Oklahomans were stereotypical. Oklahomans went outside and looked at the developing storms for fun and did not take shelter. After the 1999 tornado, the storms that did hit in Oklahoma did little to moderate damage.

Do you know how it feels to be in the eye of a hurricane? Trapped while so much is going on around you. Noise coming from every angle and not being able to say a word just looking. If you do make a noise the hurricane just consumes it leaving you with nothing. But not for long will this eye stay silent, safe inside this hurricane. It has become part of the storm.

Hurricane When I look upon your face, I feel happy, excited, safe. What I don’t know is behind that calm and peace, There is a hurricane, And the hurricane will stop for nothing,

I woke up early morning and turned on the TV. I could not see anything

I asked dad if he was worried about this hurricane. He just mumbled back that we need to keep an eye on it then he said we would be fine. As I brought my dirty dishes to mama dad came in and put his arms on mamas waist. They were talking, most likely about how much they love each but I didn't really care I was just worried about this hurricane. I then went outside with TayTay and of course it was really windy but we began talking about something I never thought I would talk about,family. TayTay explained how her and her dad got into a huge argument then of course I pitched in and asked what they were fighting about. She basically said that he just yells and screams at her. TayTay then went on about how his breath smelled and what kind of things

The hurricane was harsh and rough and water lash around at my face it was so windy and it blew the shelter away. I tried to stay calm but then the hurricane was over for a while we were in the hurricanes eye then it was all over the hurricane was over.Timothy was hurt badly from all the ruble in the hurricane.Timothy laid down and slept for a long time I laid down beside him then Timothy woke up and I took care of him.I heard a plane I yelled“Down here down here!” and lit the signal fire and Timothy said too put sea grape on the fire and the plane went back and forth looking at us I think.Then I made a shelter all over again with Timothy and it took a while for Timothy to heal and gain his muscle back I took a long time to get the shelter built