Creative Writing: Hurricane Katrina

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“ Well ...I actually don’t know who it was, but well… here let me start from the beginning.” The man looked down at me as we stood there in blazing heat. His chiseled features of his face and arms shined brightly in the sun. “It was just right after Katrina hit around 2ish,” he recounted. “Even though it was the middle of the day no sun shined through the clouds in days. It was almost completely dark out except for tiny ray of light that had managed to seep through. The street and houses around here were completely flooded the water was up to about here” the man walked off the porch and pointed to a red line just above his head. “ When Katrina had hit I was safely inside my home but by this time I had been forced out by the water like many

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