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New Orleans – It was 20 years since the hurricane Katrina beat the golf coast as a storm in category 3. The disaster is not only reminded because of its winds, but also for the crushed water increase, which was rural Louisiana Parishes And tore through the heart of New Orleans.
A woman is looking for storm waste in Buras, La, after Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 landing of Hurricane Katrina. The storm on the left destruction across the border between Mississippi-Louisiana on the left. (Sarah Alegre)
Katrina weakened before he landed on August 29, 2005, but still met the Louisiana-Missippi border as A Category 3 Sturm. The storm surge flooded houses, needed more than a thousand life and transformed the reality into a nightmare along the golf coast.
Memories from Louisiana
Seven -year -old Corrine English lost almost everything in the municipality of Plaquendines when the small fishing town of Buras was swallowed by floods.
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“Some of me have the feeling that it was only yesterday because the feeling thinks about everything that is taken away from us,” said English. “It just feels really raw.”
English said that she remembered the moment when her mother’s reaction on the news as Katrina’s eyes over Buras, Louisiana concentrated.
“I think I realized that something was really wrong,” she said, remembering her mother’s emotions. “This will not be something in which we can simply pack our suitcases again and return home.”
Sixty miles north in the Superdome in New Orleans, Corbett Reddoch, a member of the Louisiana National Guard from Buras, is expected to drive out the storm in a drill-like scenario.
“You would come in, the storm would pass, and then everyone would go,” Reddoch recalled.
But when the dikes failed, thousands of people inside were trapped when the supplies decreased and the conditions quickly deteriorated.
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“It was basically a three -day fist fight … People didn’t know how to act,” said Reddoch.
For families in Buras, survival looked different. Whole districts disappeared under water, so that the residents were cut off and isolated.
“They didn’t just go through how parents who had washed their whole world away on TV,” said English, “they had to find out how they could do it normal for two 7-year-olds and a 10-year-old.”
Today is the only piece of English childhood that remains, a building she carried through the storm, a small memory of survival and resilience.
“Sometimes it feels like yesterday,” said English. “In other cases, it feels like it was 100 years ago, because my life has changed so … and it is difficult not to ask how my life would have been if that hadn’t happened.”
Reflections by Mississippi
A fallen tree rests in a damaged house in Gulfport, Miss., After hurricane Katrina in August 2005. The winds and the climb of the storm destroyed thousands of houses in the region
(Sarah Alegre)
In Mississippi, where Katrina’s storm surge Communities have awarded a large part of the golf coast and also reflect on what has changed and what has not.
“Everyone had a loss,” said Leonard Papania, former police chief of Gulfport. “They do not build a character at such moments, they demonstrate it,” he said.
Today, Gulfport is characterized by the blue skyPalms and a new look. But two decades ago the scene was not recognizable. Papania, a young lieutenant at the time, remembers that he went through streets that he could no longer see.
A collapsed house can be seen in Gulfport, Miss., After the hurricane Katrina had hit the golf coast. Whole districts were paved by the storm surge.
(Sarah Alegre)
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“It was only heartbreaking, the area in which I grew up, I lived here all my life,” said Papania. “You didn’t even know where you were.”
The husband and father of four children also lost his home.
Rupert Lacy, who helped coordinating law enforcement and emergency management during the storm, remembers lively.
“For Katrina I had the vision that I would see that … I just didn’t notice that it would be steroids,” said Lacy.
It wasn’t the first monster storm he had seen. As a child in 1969, he experienced the hurricane Camille, whose increase flatly.
“You have to understand hydropower,” said Lacy. “Buildings that survived Camille did not survive Katrina.”
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Today, emergency officials say that teachings from Katrina continue to lead their answer.
“We are planning the possible mistakes of our systems,” said Matt, an emergency leader in Gulfport. “We have paper backups, we have alternative forms of communication.”
Nevertheless, the memories for Papanies remain tight.
“I always say I would not exchange the experience I have had in Katrina, but I absolutely don’t want to do it again,” he said.
