Timestamp: 8/11/2015 8:50:51
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Title: Ghostly Tour
Memory: I attended the 2006 American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans. I shared an airport shuttle with other attendees. The shuttle driver dropped off everyone else at their hotels, then asked me, "Sister, could I show you my neighborhood?" It was late, nearly dark, and he drove me around for 15-20 minutes, on a ghostly tour of destroyed homes, streets where all you heard was crickets and all you saw was the shining eyes of critters scuttling along, past cars that had been pushed up onto porches by the Katrina floodwaters and were still there, nearly a year later. It was eerie and sad and shocking, and it was right here in America.
Date: June 2006
Place: Lower Ninth Ward
First Name: Roxanne
Last Name: Bogucka
Age at the time: 47
Race/Ethnicity: African-American
Gender: cis-female
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Location: 29.9682712,-90.0139908
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Title: Ghostly Tour
Memory: I attended the 2006 American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans. I shared an airport shuttle with other attendees. The shuttle driver dropped off everyone else at their hotels, then asked me, "Sister, could I show you my neighborhood?" It was late, nearly dark, and he drove me around for 15-20 minutes, on a ghostly tour of destroyed homes, streets where all you heard was crickets and all you saw was the shining eyes of critters scuttling along, past cars that had been pushed up onto porches by the Katrina floodwaters and were still there, nearly a year later. It was eerie and sad and shocking, and it was right here in America.
Date: June 2006
Place: Lower Ninth Ward
First Name: Roxanne
Last Name: Bogucka
Age at the time: 47
Race/Ethnicity: African-American
Gender: cis-female
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Location: 29.9682712,-90.0139908
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Timestamp: 8/11/2015 10:38:58
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Title: 126 Lafitte Drive
Memory: This was the location of the home of my longest friend- we were in the same kindergarten class and we continued on to graduate high school together. We spent most of our time here in high school as it was located so closely to the beach. I couldn't believe how it looked once I returned after the hurricane. The property and the street it was located on were completely unrecognizable and I had a hard time even finding where the house once was since all of the familiar landmarks were gone.
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Place: 126 Lafitte Drive Waveland, MS 39576
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Location: 30.288254,-89.36917299999999
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Title: 126 Lafitte Drive
Memory: This was the location of the home of my longest friend- we were in the same kindergarten class and we continued on to graduate high school together. We spent most of our time here in high school as it was located so closely to the beach. I couldn't believe how it looked once I returned after the hurricane. The property and the street it was located on were completely unrecognizable and I had a hard time even finding where the house once was since all of the familiar landmarks were gone.
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Place: 126 Lafitte Drive Waveland, MS 39576
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Location: 30.288254,-89.36917299999999
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Timestamp: 8/11/2015 15:39:15
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Memory: A large boat was washed up on top of a utility fence in Waveland, MS.
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Place: Waveland Avenue and Dubuc Lane Waveland, MS
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Location: 30.2804204,-89.3889796
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Memory: A large boat was washed up on top of a utility fence in Waveland, MS.
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Place: Waveland Avenue and Dubuc Lane Waveland, MS
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Location: 30.2804204,-89.3889796
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Timestamp: 8/11/2015 15:53:16
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Title: Where am I?,
Memory: The strangest thing about returning home after the hurricane was having trouble finding certain homes and landmarks. With street signs blown away and no houses left on the street, it was hard to tell exactly where things use to be. I would drive down streets I knew my entire life and had no idea where I was because everything that was familiar was now gone. This photo shows how people began spray painting their addresses on debris to help people know where they were.
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Place: 208 Market Street Waveland, MS 39756
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Location: 30.275323,-89.384303
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Title: Where am I?,
Memory: The strangest thing about returning home after the hurricane was having trouble finding certain homes and landmarks. With street signs blown away and no houses left on the street, it was hard to tell exactly where things use to be. I would drive down streets I knew my entire life and had no idea where I was because everything that was familiar was now gone. This photo shows how people began spray painting their addresses on debris to help people know where they were.
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Place: 208 Market Street Waveland, MS 39756
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Location: 30.275323,-89.384303
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Timestamp: 8/11/2015 15:41:19
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Memory: Destroyed houses on the corner of Market Street and Waveland Avenue.
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Place: Market Street and Waveland Avenue. Waveland, MS
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Location: 30.2768462,-89.38482979999999
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Memory: Destroyed houses on the corner of Market Street and Waveland Avenue.
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Place: Market Street and Waveland Avenue. Waveland, MS
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Location: 30.2768462,-89.38482979999999
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Timestamp: 8/11/2015 15:49:35
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Memory: This is the location of the cottage my mom was living in at the time of the hurricane. The cottage was washed away by the 30+ foot storm surge that hit her neighborhood. The van is sitting where the cottage was and we have no clue who the van belongs to. Many of the people in Waveland, MS did not evacuate and stayed in their homes during the storm. Anyone who lived "south of the train tracks" where this cottage was located was actually visited by the local police department who enforced a mandatory evacuation, obviously for good reasons.
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Place: 141 1/2 Market Street Waveland, MS 39576
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Location: 30.2723783,-89.3834363
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Memory: This is the location of the cottage my mom was living in at the time of the hurricane. The cottage was washed away by the 30+ foot storm surge that hit her neighborhood. The van is sitting where the cottage was and we have no clue who the van belongs to. Many of the people in Waveland, MS did not evacuate and stayed in their homes during the storm. Anyone who lived "south of the train tracks" where this cottage was located was actually visited by the local police department who enforced a mandatory evacuation, obviously for good reasons.
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Place: 141 1/2 Market Street Waveland, MS 39576
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Location: 30.2723783,-89.3834363
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Timestamp: 8/11/2015 15:56:45
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Title: Market Street
Memory: This is the street my mother lived on in 2005. It was such a beautiful street; very narrow, tree lined and with a view directly to the beach and the water. As you can see from the photo, even the paved road was washed away on this street by the 30+ foot storm surge.
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Place: Market Street and Piney Ridge Road Waveland, MS
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Location: 30.274712,-89.38485250000001
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Title: Market Street
Memory: This is the street my mother lived on in 2005. It was such a beautiful street; very narrow, tree lined and with a view directly to the beach and the water. As you can see from the photo, even the paved road was washed away on this street by the 30+ foot storm surge.
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Place: Market Street and Piney Ridge Road Waveland, MS
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Location: 30.274712,-89.38485250000001
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Timestamp: 8/11/2015 17:23:24
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Title: Hammock
Memory: My family was obviously without electricity for quite some time after the hurricane. This meant no A/C in late August and September. This photo was taken after my brothers and dad had cleared some of the fallen trees in the yard. My brother made a make-shift hammock out of fallen trees and a fishing net. This helped him stay cool at night while he slept and also allowed him to guard our home from looters.
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Place: 753 Blue Meadow Road Bay St. Louis, MS 39520
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Location: 30.319617,-89.35029
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Title: Hammock
Memory: My family was obviously without electricity for quite some time after the hurricane. This meant no A/C in late August and September. This photo was taken after my brothers and dad had cleared some of the fallen trees in the yard. My brother made a make-shift hammock out of fallen trees and a fishing net. This helped him stay cool at night while he slept and also allowed him to guard our home from looters.
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Place: 753 Blue Meadow Road Bay St. Louis, MS 39520
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Location: 30.319617,-89.35029
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Timestamp: 8/11/2015 17:52:35
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Title: Lafitte Drive
Memory: This was the street my best friend grew up on- Lafitte Drive in Waveland, MS. This street was once lined with homes of families who had lived on that street for many years. This photo was taken a few weeks after the hurricane. The city had cleared the street for vehicles to drive on it by this time but as you can see the homes and properties were still in the state of destruction as they were when the hurricane made landfall.
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Place: Lafitte Drive and N Central Avenue Waveland, MS
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Location: 30.2894664,-89.3710128
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Title: Lafitte Drive
Memory: This was the street my best friend grew up on- Lafitte Drive in Waveland, MS. This street was once lined with homes of families who had lived on that street for many years. This photo was taken a few weeks after the hurricane. The city had cleared the street for vehicles to drive on it by this time but as you can see the homes and properties were still in the state of destruction as they were when the hurricane made landfall.
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Place: Lafitte Drive and N Central Avenue Waveland, MS
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Location: 30.2894664,-89.3710128
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Timestamp: 8/11/2015 17:34:38
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Memory: This photo is the front yard of my childhood home once the water started receding. My youngest brother opened the front door of our home once the water stopped rising in the house in the hopes of speeding up the process of getting the water out of the house. When he finally was able to open the door, there was such much water trying to rush out of the house through the front door that it created a current that started to sweep him away and out of the house. My other brother was able to grab him and pull him back into the house in time and the water soon receded from the house.
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Place: 753 Blue Meadow Road Bay St. Louis, MS 39520
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Location: 30.319617,-89.35027
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Memory: This photo is the front yard of my childhood home once the water started receding. My youngest brother opened the front door of our home once the water stopped rising in the house in the hopes of speeding up the process of getting the water out of the house. When he finally was able to open the door, there was such much water trying to rush out of the house through the front door that it created a current that started to sweep him away and out of the house. My other brother was able to grab him and pull him back into the house in time and the water soon receded from the house.
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Place: 753 Blue Meadow Road Bay St. Louis, MS 39520
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Location: 30.319617,-89.35027
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Timestamp: 8/11/2015 17:41:56
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Title: Floating Fridge
Memory: This is a photo of the kitchen in the home I grew up in as the flood waters were filling up the house. As you can see, the refrigerator turned into a flotation device and began floating all throughout the house. Unseen in this photo is the china cabinet that was kept in the corner of the kitchen. In the bottom of that china cabinet were storage cabinets where all of my brother's and my baby photos were stored. When the house first began to fill with water, my family rushed to try and save the baby photos. A good number of them were thrown into the blue storage bin in the photo but most were lost in the water.
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Place: 753 Blue Meadow Road Bay St. Louis, MS 39520
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Location: 30.319617,-89.35031
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Title: Floating Fridge
Memory: This is a photo of the kitchen in the home I grew up in as the flood waters were filling up the house. As you can see, the refrigerator turned into a flotation device and began floating all throughout the house. Unseen in this photo is the china cabinet that was kept in the corner of the kitchen. In the bottom of that china cabinet were storage cabinets where all of my brother's and my baby photos were stored. When the house first began to fill with water, my family rushed to try and save the baby photos. A good number of them were thrown into the blue storage bin in the photo but most were lost in the water.
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Place: 753 Blue Meadow Road Bay St. Louis, MS 39520
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Location: 30.319617,-89.35031
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Timestamp: 8/11/2015 17:48:36
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Memory: A friend of mine in high school lived in the most beautiful home on the beach. It was three stories high with a pool and a pool house and was the most impressive home my high school friends and I had ever been in. Since it was the largest home I knew of in our home town, I passed by the property a few weeks after the hurricane. I couldn't believe that there was absolutely nothing left where this massive home once was. There wasn't even any debris on the property. The only thing left was the cement stairs that led from the front yard down to the beach.
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Place: 579 N Beach Boulevard Waveland, MS 39576
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Location: 30.2891438,-89.35926889999999
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Memory: A friend of mine in high school lived in the most beautiful home on the beach. It was three stories high with a pool and a pool house and was the most impressive home my high school friends and I had ever been in. Since it was the largest home I knew of in our home town, I passed by the property a few weeks after the hurricane. I couldn't believe that there was absolutely nothing left where this massive home once was. There wasn't even any debris on the property. The only thing left was the cement stairs that led from the front yard down to the beach.
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Place: 579 N Beach Boulevard Waveland, MS 39576
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Location: 30.2891438,-89.35926889999999
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Timestamp: 8/11/2015 18:25:50
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Title: Railroad Tracks
Memory: The storm surge was so intense in Waveland, MS that the foundation of the railroad tracks along N Central Avenue was washed away while the tracks still remained.
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Place: N Central Avenue Waveland, MS 39576
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Location: 30.2913207,-89.3674835
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Title: Railroad Tracks
Memory: The storm surge was so intense in Waveland, MS that the foundation of the railroad tracks along N Central Avenue was washed away while the tracks still remained.
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Place: N Central Avenue Waveland, MS 39576
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Location: 30.2913207,-89.3674835
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Timestamp: 8/24/2015 17:56:33
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Title: Leaving Mid City,
Memory: I was a public school teacher in Orleans Parish. My colleagues and I got together on Friday afternoon at the end of our first week back in school. No one was really talking about the storm. I lived on Bienville in Mid City and spent the entire day, Saturday, the 27th, preparing my home to stay. Finally around 9pm I had time to turn on the news. When I saw the National Weather rep., the Mayor and the Governor all looking very scared as well as the satellite image of the storm taking up the entire gulf, I decided to GO. I left my home with 3 days of clothing at 11 pm that night and drove all night to Austin, Tx. On Tues. after the storm had passed but I saw that the levees had been breached I called my tenants. They said the house was fine but there was water in the street! I told them to get out and go to Lindy Boggs Hospital. They waded there and were helicoptered out of NO from Bayou St. John. The street had 6 feet of water, my house had 4 feet. I had left Mid City. It took days to find friends, many of whom had stayed and endured far more than I.
Date: Aug. 28, 2005
Place: 2604 Bienville, NO, La. 70119
First Name: Denise
Last Name: Ekberg
Age at the time: 44
Race/Ethnicity: caucasian
Gender: Female
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Location: 29.9663062,-90.0845744
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Title: Leaving Mid City,
Memory: I was a public school teacher in Orleans Parish. My colleagues and I got together on Friday afternoon at the end of our first week back in school. No one was really talking about the storm. I lived on Bienville in Mid City and spent the entire day, Saturday, the 27th, preparing my home to stay. Finally around 9pm I had time to turn on the news. When I saw the National Weather rep., the Mayor and the Governor all looking very scared as well as the satellite image of the storm taking up the entire gulf, I decided to GO. I left my home with 3 days of clothing at 11 pm that night and drove all night to Austin, Tx. On Tues. after the storm had passed but I saw that the levees had been breached I called my tenants. They said the house was fine but there was water in the street! I told them to get out and go to Lindy Boggs Hospital. They waded there and were helicoptered out of NO from Bayou St. John. The street had 6 feet of water, my house had 4 feet. I had left Mid City. It took days to find friends, many of whom had stayed and endured far more than I.
Date: Aug. 28, 2005
Place: 2604 Bienville, NO, La. 70119
First Name: Denise
Last Name: Ekberg
Age at the time: 44
Race/Ethnicity: caucasian
Gender: Female
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Location: 29.9663062,-90.0845744
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Timestamp: 8/24/2015 18:10:34
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Title: Roof Blew Off,
Memory: Though my house on Royal and Mandeville was in an area that thankfully did not flood, the building was very old, and my roof blew off. It looked like a bomb hit the place. I lost most of my belongings, but somehow was able to salvage my great-grandmother's quilts, and my beloved books. So that felt like a miracle, and a great blessing!
Date: October 2005
Place: Royal + Mandeville
First Name: Angeliska
Last Name: Polacheck
Age at the time: 26
Race/Ethnicity: Irish/Eastern European
Gender: Female
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Location: 30.4352567,-90.09344689999999
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Title: Roof Blew Off,
Memory: Though my house on Royal and Mandeville was in an area that thankfully did not flood, the building was very old, and my roof blew off. It looked like a bomb hit the place. I lost most of my belongings, but somehow was able to salvage my great-grandmother's quilts, and my beloved books. So that felt like a miracle, and a great blessing!
Date: October 2005
Place: Royal + Mandeville
First Name: Angeliska
Last Name: Polacheck
Age at the time: 26
Race/Ethnicity: Irish/Eastern European
Gender: Female
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Validation: Katrina
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Location: 30.4352567,-90.09344689999999
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Timestamp: 8/24/2015 18:01:12
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Title: Lower 9th Ward aftermath,
Memory: Lower 9th Ward destruction, a year after the levee breach. The grass grew back in patches, but ground was soaked in poison. People wore masks – but not sparkly ones carnival ones. It made you want to throw your shoes away when you left, but they were the only ones you had.
Date: Ash Wednesday 2006
Place: Lower 9th Ward
First Name: Angeliska
Last Name: Polacheck
Age at the time: 27
Race/Ethnicity: Irish/Eastern European
Gender: Female
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Location: 29.9682712,-90.0139908
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Title: Lower 9th Ward aftermath,
Memory: Lower 9th Ward destruction, a year after the levee breach. The grass grew back in patches, but ground was soaked in poison. People wore masks – but not sparkly ones carnival ones. It made you want to throw your shoes away when you left, but they were the only ones you had.
Date: Ash Wednesday 2006
Place: Lower 9th Ward
First Name: Angeliska
Last Name: Polacheck
Age at the time: 27
Race/Ethnicity: Irish/Eastern European
Gender: Female
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Validation: Katrina
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Location: 29.9682712,-90.0139908
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Timestamp: 8/24/2015 18:03:17
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Title: G&G real story,
Memory: interview to follow
Date: 08/29/2005
Place: 525 St. Claude, new orleans
First Name: Greg
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Location: 29.9563784,-90.0733717
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Title: G&G real story,
Memory: interview to follow
Date: 08/29/2005
Place: 525 St. Claude, new orleans
First Name: Greg
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Location: 29.9563784,-90.0733717
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Timestamp: 8/24/2015 18:15:38
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Title: Carl Webb and Katrina,
Memory: My first memory was just shock and disbelief that something like this could happen. Especially after trying to phone home and learning that all phone lines were down.My friend Michael Vincent Crea called Amy Goodman at Democracy Now and she invited me on the show which is titled "Missing in New Orleans: Voices of Those Seeking Loved Ones". You can see a transcript of the show at http://www.democracynow.org/2005/9/6/missing_in_new_orleans_voices_of You can see the video at http://ia600503.us.archive.org/21/items/dn2005-0906_vid/dn2005-0906_512kb.mp4?
Date: August 28, 2005
Place: Harlem, New York
First Name: Carl
Last Name: Webb
Age at the time: 39
Race/Ethnicity: Afro-Latino
Gender: Male
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Validation: Katrina
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Location: 40.8115504,-73.9464769
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Title: Carl Webb and Katrina,
Memory: My first memory was just shock and disbelief that something like this could happen. Especially after trying to phone home and learning that all phone lines were down.My friend Michael Vincent Crea called Amy Goodman at Democracy Now and she invited me on the show which is titled "Missing in New Orleans: Voices of Those Seeking Loved Ones". You can see a transcript of the show at http://www.democracynow.org/2005/9/6/missing_in_new_orleans_voices_of You can see the video at http://ia600503.us.archive.org/21/items/dn2005-0906_vid/dn2005-0906_512kb.mp4?
Date: August 28, 2005
Place: Harlem, New York
First Name: Carl
Last Name: Webb
Age at the time: 39
Race/Ethnicity: Afro-Latino
Gender: Male
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Validation: Katrina
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Location: 40.8115504,-73.9464769
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Timestamp: 8/24/2015 18:26:32
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Memory: well truth to tell i was pretty safe at the time of the major nitemare at eveningtime cdst, on 28 august to early morning,cdst, on 29 august in 2005 in the big city itself new orleans ! for many of the blessed survivors.... i suppose that i was in this group and i am still grateful for that kind of membership.... still the real ordeal ,the real travail was of coarse the aftermath; it was really really bad!! i had no home...i was homeless. but for those who had homes i could and did cry for them! anyway i remember dreadful 5 feet tall floodwaters and relentlessly sunny weather for the next cuppl of days befor my exodus from n.o. at c 9 pm cdst, on 3 sept, in 2005; i may landed remarkably soon in austin, at c 10:30 pm cdst on the same saturday nite!! no rain in n o for my last week in new orleans ! after about one full day in my original district of algiers in n o, following katrina , what had passed for sum law enforcement authority had strongly advised me and other residents of algiers to traverse across the greater new orleans bridge for my first and omly time in my 28 years that i livved in n o ! no fear of arrest by police and no real competing automotive traffic ..... it was pretty much...all pedestrian traffic on the fabled GNO bridge all ferry service on the ol man river was savaged!! when i got to the ordered destination, the now devstated new orleans convention center.......... me and several hundreds or maybe a thousand or whatever were sort of cooped up in a less than comfortable but otherwise safe bldg. rumor had it that there was sum breakdown of law and order and it may have been that the less nobler facets of human nature may have wreaked sum havoc....... i myself never saw of such outrite ugliness and i am grateful... the superdome,new orleams pride and joy for many years, was allegedly destroyed by both the storm and the negative aspect of human nature,or so i hav ben told!!! none of us suffereed for want....we did get decent supplies of food, and sanitary aids!!! in good time, i saw many different divisions of various army and air national guards of various U.S. states finally patrolling new orleanian streets and i was even intervued by sum well spoken central european journalist...i think that he was a german newsman. the fundamental question facing us katrinans was when we were all going to leev n o, and wherer for sum 5 long days !!! Surprise! i didnt haf to wait up to labor day or beyond...on 5 sept or afterwards!!! it would be at last day of the calendar week of katrina,, 28 august to 3 sept in 2005.......of course, sat, 3 sept,in 2005! I was heading to a new life to the west...west of louisiana,similar to my ancestors in long ago prairie wagons one hundred years before i were born ... only that i were airlifted and not traveling on the ground!!! Literally thank God Almighty !!!!!!!
Date: from most of 29 august to sept 3, in 2005!!
Place: both at general degaulle drive in district of algiers in city of new orleans and at new orleans convention center at ernest morial boulevard in downtown new orleans in new orleans louisiana.........my departure from new orleans was at moisant international airport in kenner louisiana....kenner is a noted suburb of n.o.
First Name: robert
Last Name: tapscott
Age at the time: 53 years old in 2005
Race/Ethnicity: caucasian or white
Gender: male
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Memory: well truth to tell i was pretty safe at the time of the major nitemare at eveningtime cdst, on 28 august to early morning,cdst, on 29 august in 2005 in the big city itself new orleans ! for many of the blessed survivors.... i suppose that i was in this group and i am still grateful for that kind of membership.... still the real ordeal ,the real travail was of coarse the aftermath; it was really really bad!! i had no home...i was homeless. but for those who had homes i could and did cry for them! anyway i remember dreadful 5 feet tall floodwaters and relentlessly sunny weather for the next cuppl of days befor my exodus from n.o. at c 9 pm cdst, on 3 sept, in 2005; i may landed remarkably soon in austin, at c 10:30 pm cdst on the same saturday nite!! no rain in n o for my last week in new orleans ! after about one full day in my original district of algiers in n o, following katrina , what had passed for sum law enforcement authority had strongly advised me and other residents of algiers to traverse across the greater new orleans bridge for my first and omly time in my 28 years that i livved in n o ! no fear of arrest by police and no real competing automotive traffic ..... it was pretty much...all pedestrian traffic on the fabled GNO bridge all ferry service on the ol man river was savaged!! when i got to the ordered destination, the now devstated new orleans convention center.......... me and several hundreds or maybe a thousand or whatever were sort of cooped up in a less than comfortable but otherwise safe bldg. rumor had it that there was sum breakdown of law and order and it may have been that the less nobler facets of human nature may have wreaked sum havoc....... i myself never saw of such outrite ugliness and i am grateful... the superdome,new orleams pride and joy for many years, was allegedly destroyed by both the storm and the negative aspect of human nature,or so i hav ben told!!! none of us suffereed for want....we did get decent supplies of food, and sanitary aids!!! in good time, i saw many different divisions of various army and air national guards of various U.S. states finally patrolling new orleanian streets and i was even intervued by sum well spoken central european journalist...i think that he was a german newsman. the fundamental question facing us katrinans was when we were all going to leev n o, and wherer for sum 5 long days !!! Surprise! i didnt haf to wait up to labor day or beyond...on 5 sept or afterwards!!! it would be at last day of the calendar week of katrina,, 28 august to 3 sept in 2005.......of course, sat, 3 sept,in 2005! I was heading to a new life to the west...west of louisiana,similar to my ancestors in long ago prairie wagons one hundred years before i were born ... only that i were airlifted and not traveling on the ground!!! Literally thank God Almighty !!!!!!!
Date: from most of 29 august to sept 3, in 2005!!
Place: both at general degaulle drive in district of algiers in city of new orleans and at new orleans convention center at ernest morial boulevard in downtown new orleans in new orleans louisiana.........my departure from new orleans was at moisant international airport in kenner louisiana....kenner is a noted suburb of n.o.
First Name: robert
Last Name: tapscott
Age at the time: 53 years old in 2005
Race/Ethnicity: caucasian or white
Gender: male
May we add your memory to the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank?: Yes
Validation: Katrina
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Timestamp: 8/26/2015 0:04:02
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Title: Carl Webb returns home to New Orleans,
Memory: Here is a photo album of pictures a friend took of me back home. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.233819373334293.55801.100001186960028&type=1&l=2d8d5ae079
Date: September 2005
Place: New Orleans
First Name: Carl
Last Name: Webb
Age at the time: 39
Race/Ethnicity: Afro-Latino
Gender: Male
May we add your memory to the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank?: Yes
Validation: Katrina
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Location: 29.95106579999999,-90.0715323
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Title:
Title: Carl Webb returns home to New Orleans,
Memory: Here is a photo album of pictures a friend took of me back home. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.233819373334293.55801.100001186960028&type=1&l=2d8d5ae079
Date: September 2005
Place: New Orleans
First Name: Carl
Last Name: Webb
Age at the time: 39
Race/Ethnicity: Afro-Latino
Gender: Male
May we add your memory to the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank?: Yes
Validation: Katrina
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