Month: September 2005

General, Journal, News

Hurricane Katrina — Karen UPDATE


Silvio, how are you? Are you still in New Orleans? I have finally returned to my home in Kenner. It was wonderful to sleep in my own bed after 3 weeks. Our house has no damage. My family is rather devastated, however. My parents have 4 feet of water in their house in Metairie, my

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Hurricane Katrina — Aftermath Part II


On my third day of producing liveshots with Dan from Canal Street across from Harrah’s Casino — now a New Orleanss police staging area — all hell breaks loose completely unecessarily. Atlanta, the mothership, decides that because FOX News has a liveshot from an exit ramp now being used as a boat ramp to rescue

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Hurricane Katrina — Aftermath


After I returned to DC what I saw in Katrina finally sunk in and left me in a state I had never exprienced before. I felt numb. I felt guilty. It was so easy for me to leave there physically, I was flown out on a chartered jet with others from CNN. It just seemed

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Hurricane Katrina — Part Five


We wound our way through downtown along the way dropping off evacuees from the hotel at a shelter a few blocks away. We then made our way to 90 west which took us across the Mississippi River. It turned out to be a pretty easy ride, but that was hard to tell when standing downtown

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Hurricane Katrina — Part Four


The next morning I got up an hour early by accident. Adaora and I thought about going down to visit Karen to see how they were holding up. We were never able to confirm if they had evacuated the 1,000 people — 200 patients the rest staff — staying there. I’m so exhausted I decied

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