Rebuilding - the long road to recovery

Posted Monday 6 Sep 12:55 pm

Jessica Alvey, a 2009 PLAN!T NOW Hurricane Relief Scholarship recipient, details the first stages of recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Her family was displaced from Slidell, La., in the months following Katrina’s destruction of many Gulf Coast communities.
Eight feet of water destroyed everything my family had in our one-level home when Hurricane Katrina swept through Louisiana. [...]

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