New Orleans Survivor Stories


.... last week, CP [City Pages] reporters and stringers contacted about 30 of them and asked them to tell their stories. We interviewed some of the 1,000 or so Katrina survivors who have made it to Minnesota, and spoke to many more who remain in the area by phone. Here are 20 or so of the stories we collected (along with two of the widely emailed first-person accounts that helped inspire this package--see Denise Moore and Slonsky/Bradshaw, below). The real measure of all that was done wrong by city, state, and federal governments, and of all that people trapped in New Orleans had to do and endure as a result, is in these tales and thousands of others like them...
-- Steve Perry


Posted: Wed - September 21, 2005 at 02:53 PM            

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