Nancy Guy, Louis Flores III and Holly Donnelly stand with the Arabi Team in front of their newly restored building.


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Nancy Guy: “You live somewhere your whole life and you know everyone around you and everything around you. You’re established somewhere and then someone pulls the rug out from under you.”


would hit the gulf before Guy and her family would be allowed to return to New Orleans. Holly Donnelly’s husband was out of country and she was at home with three high school and college-age kids. Like many people in her neighborhood, they had stayed until the last minute. “My neighbor called at six in the morning and said she was going to leave. We had some stuff packed, and when the boys got up we left. It was around noon on Sunday.” On the way out of town, Donnelly also picked up her 95-year-old aunt who was living in the same neighborhood. By Sunday, August 28, Katrina’s winds were rotating near 150 miles an hour. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued an evacuation notice and tens of thousands of residents left the city, assuming they’d be back in a few days once the winds died and the skies cleared. By late Sunday evening, thousands of residents who could


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not or would not evacuate, sought shelter in the Louisiana Superdome. Many Americans went to bed on Sunday night


assured that all would be relatively well in the Crescent City. Te worst of the storm was projected to miss the city - and it did; first making landfall in Plaquemines Parish, but then bouncing past New Orleans to Slidell, Louisiana to the northeast. Te worst of the storm slammed into Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, almost completely destroying both cities. For New Orleans, what came next wasn’t a natural


disaster, it was a man-made disaster. While studies at Louisiana State University predicted flooding in New Orleans, LSU’s storm-surge models assumed that the city’s defenses would remain intact, buffering it from the worst of the storm. Following this storm, flood researchers have suggested that as many as


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