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Katrina

She came in like a thief in the night, discreetly after reaching a three she put up a horrific fight. In the wee small hours of the morning she began hugging up closely to her other half, spotted through a plyboard knot hole she took the beach then she laugh. She forcefully wrapped herself around her man, not caring who was in her path with no remorse because she can. Running the inhabitants off his land, not even a life jacket couldn't save their pension plan. Slapping him around everything God has established, was gradually disappearing and just simply vanished.  A family stranded on roof top, no one too rescue them not even a cop. Eighteen hours on the roof of their home a couple with their son and daughter, surviving off a can of Pepsi and Top Ramen while friends of their lost there mother and father.  The waters are calm and silent in this narration, a catastrophe witness by many is there any question.  She leaves behind a reminder, a devastation with no arrest  made because they won't be able find her. Who will support them? Who will back their decisions? Afraid, the people at FEMA, a political set back while over a thousand die in the hands of Katrina.
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Written by
sebastian-perez
Mexican
Published
Apr 16, 2012
Lines·Words
28·212
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Hurricane Katrina: a co-worker tells me a story of a good friend of the family husband and wife and parents, the wife was looking through the hole in a plugboard used to board up da house of their home near da beach in New Orleans n notice the beach had vanished. They put on life jacket knowing that the waves will return along with the strong winds dat would take out their home. Parents were never found. The story of the family on the roof top was my co-workers sister n husband n children.

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