How Hurricane Katrina Changed My Life.
How I Remember Hurricane Katrina By: William Ford
Thesis: How Hurricane Katrina changed my life. On Saturday August 27th 2005, my wife and I had a lot of things on our minds. I was home from an eight hour overtime outcall, at my new job with Cable One in Long Beach, MS. Having only been there five days and also in the middle of packing to move from Bay St. Louis, MS over to Long Beach, only a little over six miles away, the stress level at home was very high. We learned that a giant storm may be headed right for us; it was on track for the eye to pass right on, or near where we lived. We had been through Tropical Storm Allison’s torrential rainfall and high winds, but nothing as monstrous as this. The move came to a dead stand still, we had to change our plans and act fast. Everyone has their own story and this is mine, the story of Hurricane Katrina, and how it changed my life. Life can change in the blink of an eye, and we learned this lesson rather quickly. We had been so focused on moving to our new home that the news of the approaching storm seemed of little or no importance. Everyone there seemed very at ease, most talked about going through Hurricane Camille, and how this storm would likely move closer to Texas and we had nothing to worry about. We stopped from packing for an hour or so, and decided to go out for a bite of lunch at a nearby restaurant. That was the moment that made everything seem surreal, people were frantically packing into stores in droves. Long lines everywhere and traffic was congested with people getting on highway 90 and heading out of town. After we ate a sense of urgency filled us, with what do we do now? We made our way to Wal-Mart, and spent several hours gathering food, flashlights, candles, bottled water, batteries and wood to cover our windows at home. Also we stopped at a locally designated place to get sandbags to stop water from coming in if floodwaters got
Thesis: How Hurricane Katrina changed my life. On Saturday August 27th 2005, my wife and I had a lot of things on our minds. I was home from an eight hour overtime outcall, at my new job with Cable One in Long Beach, MS. Having only been there five days and also in the middle of packing to move from Bay St. Louis, MS over to Long Beach, only a little over six miles away, the stress level at home was very high. We learned that a giant storm may be headed right for us; it was on track for the eye to pass right on, or near where we lived. We had been through Tropical Storm Allison’s torrential rainfall and high winds, but nothing as monstrous as this. The move came to a dead stand still, we had to change our plans and act fast. Everyone has their own story and this is mine, the story of Hurricane Katrina, and how it changed my life. Life can change in the blink of an eye, and we learned this lesson rather quickly. We had been so focused on moving to our new home that the news of the approaching storm seemed of little or no importance. Everyone there seemed very at ease, most talked about going through Hurricane Camille, and how this storm would likely move closer to Texas and we had nothing to worry about. We stopped from packing for an hour or so, and decided to go out for a bite of lunch at a nearby restaurant. That was the moment that made everything seem surreal, people were frantically packing into stores in droves. Long lines everywhere and traffic was congested with people getting on highway 90 and heading out of town. After we ate a sense of urgency filled us, with what do we do now? We made our way to Wal-Mart, and spent several hours gathering food, flashlights, candles, bottled water, batteries and wood to cover our windows at home. Also we stopped at a locally designated place to get sandbags to stop water from coming in if floodwaters got