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Book Synopsis Mississippi Angels in Hurricane Katrina by : A. P. Call
Download or read book Mississippi Angels in Hurricane Katrina written by A. P. Call and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina is a story of survival and personal growth. People working together to restore the communities they lost. This book describes that journey, in they eyes of a little girl. Together you will see the damages a hurricane can cause and how people cope with their loses in different ways. Hurricane Katrina had sustained winds of 175 MPH, killed at least 2,000 people, and cost $90 Billion Dollars in damages across the United State's Gulf Coast, including New Orleans.
Book Synopsis The Water Lies by : Linda Gannon Mucha
Download or read book The Water Lies written by Linda Gannon Mucha and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Water Lies shares the true story of the Mucha family of Biloxi, Mississippi before, during, and after the hour when Hurricane Katrina tore their lives apart. Experience this familys love and dedication as they confronted and overcame a lack of trust and the brutal consequences of poor decisions. Broken dreams, broken hearts, and facing death at different times threatened this family in untold ways, until now. In sixty minutes, Hurricane Katrina changed countless lives forever. This is one familys story that bares the raw emotions experienced by so many of the families of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. While the country and world embraced the tragic story of New Orleans, and justifiably so, the people of the Mississippi Gulf Coast went about trying to rebuild their lives. This region took the strongest part of Hurricane Katrina. Communities were literally erased. Hundreds of thousands of Mississippians lost their homes, churches, schools, employment their very culture. While no two stories in The Water Lies are alike, they all represent the horror of losing everything and the tenacity of starting over. Choices can never be made without consequences and those consequences can be valuable learning opportunities.
Download or read book Katrina written by Sally Pfister and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunting, firsthand accounts and photographs from the aftermath of the hurricane
Book Synopsis Hurricane Katrina by : James Patterson Smith
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina written by James Patterson Smith and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story of a people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty-five-thousand homes when the eye wall and powerful northeast quadrant of the hurricane swept a record thirty-foot storm surge across a seventy-five-mile stretch of unprotected Mississippi towns and cities. James Patterson Smith takes us through life and death accounts of storm day, August 29, 2005, and the precarious days of food and water shortages that followed. Along the way the narrative treats us to inspiring episodes of neighborly compassion and creative responses to the greatest natural disaster in American history. The heroes of this saga are the local people and local officials. In often moving accounts, the book addresses the Mississippi Gulf Coast's long struggle to remove a record-setting volume of debris and get on with the rebuilding of homes, schools, jobs, and public infrastructure. Along the way readers are offered insights into the politics of recovery funding and the bureaucratic bungling and hubris that afflicted the storm response and complicated and delayed the work of recovery. Still, there are ample accounts of things done well, and a moving chapter gives us a feel for the psychological, spiritual, and material impact of the eight hundred thousand people from across the nation who gave of themselves as volunteers in the Mississippi recovery effort.
Book Synopsis Angels and Quilt Pieces...Our Journey with a Katrina Family by : Stephanie Ehmen
Download or read book Angels and Quilt Pieces...Our Journey with a Katrina Family written by Stephanie Ehmen and published by Stephanie Ehmen. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This story of one family sponsoring a Katrina family becomes an amazing experience of empathy as the author shares her thoughts and feelings, learning what it means to 'be our brother's keeper.' The author takes us through the challenges and joys of being there for a family that she and her husband came to love. The challenge was, 'How can we be responsible TO this family without being totally responsible FOR them '--p.[vii].
Book Synopsis The Storm by : Barbara Barbieri McGrath
Download or read book The Storm written by Barbara Barbieri McGrath and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the coastlines of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. It was a storm the people of Biloxi, Mississippi, like many other Gulf Coast residents, will never forget. Students, teachers, and administrators from the Biloxi Public Schools share their stories from the days preceding Hurricane Katrina to those first days of recovery after the storm. And even while their city lay in ruins, one remarkable lighthouse survived, serving as a beacon of hope. Their powerful images and moving personal accounts pay tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.
Book Synopsis Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi by : Susan L. Cutter
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi written by Susan L. Cutter and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary volume on impacts of and recovery from Hurricane Katrina in southern Mississippi, for natural hazard researchers, students and policy makers.
Book Synopsis Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi by : Susan L. Cutter
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi written by Susan L. Cutter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. Almost all analyses of the disaster have been dedicated to the way the hurricane affected New Orleans. This volume examines the impact of Katrina on southern Mississippi. While communities along Mississippi's Gulf Coast shared the impact, their socioeconomic and demographic compositions varied widely, leading to different types and rates of recovery. This volume furthers our understanding of the pace of recovery and its geographic extent, and explores the role of inequalities in the recovery process and those antecedent conditions that could give rise to a 'recovery divide'. It will be especially appealing to researchers and advanced students of natural disasters and policy makers dealing with disaster consequences and recovery.
Book Synopsis Memories of Hurricane Katrina and Other Musings by : Jack O'Connor
Download or read book Memories of Hurricane Katrina and Other Musings written by Jack O'Connor and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack O'Connor was a police officer at the University of Massachusetts for twenty-one years. After retiring from the police department, he moved to New Orleans and was employed as director of security for a New Orleans hotel chain. He was in the hotel where he was based in downtown New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck and devastated the city. O'Connor uses a blend of poetry and prose to describe what he saw, heard, and felt during the great disaster. He not only tells of the damage and horror, but he also shows the goodness of man that this tragedy brought out. He also describes how an event that brought so much pain and suffering to thousands also brought about some very major positive changes in his life. Home They say home is where the heart is. I dont doubt that this is all very true. Do you know what this really means? My home is really in New Orleans. While Katrina ravaged New Orleans And I watched in fascinated wonder, I only saw its power and wild fury As it played out in a very small scene. Over the following days and weeks, When I saw the devastation twas done, Bitter tears flowed down my cheeks As I saw the very soul torn from my home
Book Synopsis Hurricane Katrina Brought Angels Too! by : Susan Jumonville
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina Brought Angels Too! written by Susan Jumonville and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two little boys survive the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and end up in a shelter that is run by Earth angels, but only the boys can see the angels' wings.
Book Synopsis Beyond Katrina by : Natasha Trethewey
Download or read book Beyond Katrina written by Natasha Trethewey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Trethewey’s attempt to understand and document the damage to Gulfport started as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in the Virginia Quarterly Review. For Beyond Katrina, Trethewey expanded this work into a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home. In this new edition, Trethewey looks back on the ten years that have passed since Katrina in a new epilogue, outlining progress that has been made and the challenges that still exist.
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Book Synopsis Hurricane Katrina by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis America's Great Storm by : Haley Barbour
Download or read book America's Great Storm written by Haley Barbour and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi on August 29, 2005, it unleashed the costliest natural disaster in American history, and the third deadliest. Haley Barbour had been Mississippi's governor for only twenty months when he assumed responsibility for guiding his pummeled, stricken state's recovery and rebuilding efforts. America's Great Storm is not only a personal memoir of his role in that recovery, but also a sifting of the many lessons he learned about leadership in a time of massive crisis. For the book, the authors interviewed more than forty-five key people involved in helping Mississippi recover, including local, state, and federal officials as well as private citizens who played pivotal roles in the weeks and months following Katrina's landfall. In addition to covering in detail the events of September and October 2005, chapters focus on the special legislative session that allowed casinos to build on shore; the role of the recovery commission chaired by Jim Barksdale; a behind-the-scenes description of working with Congress to pass an unprecedented, multi-billion-dollar emergency disaster assistance appropriation; and the enormous roles played by volunteers in rebuilding the entire housing, transportation, and education infrastructure of South Mississippi and the Gulf Coast. A final chapter analyzes the leadership skills and strategies Barbour employed on behalf of the people of his state, observations that will be valuable to anyone tasked with managing in a crisis.
Download or read book Katrina written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captioned photos from the Sun Herald newspaper collection showing what Hurricane Katrina did to the Gulf Coast, mostly featuring Mississippi's Harrison and Hancock counties.
Book Synopsis Mississippi Barking by : Chris McLaughlin
Download or read book Mississippi Barking written by Chris McLaughlin and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Like many others in America and around the world, Chris McLaughlin watched the tragedy of Katrina unfold on a television screen from the comfort of her living room on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. In the devastation afterwards, almost 2,000 people and an estimated 250,000 animals had perished. Miraculously, many pets did manage to survive. But in the months that followed the hurricane, thousands of them were fending for themselves in the ruins of devastated neighborhoods. They roamed the streets in feral packs or struck out alone. Their plight triggered a grassroots rescue effort unlike any this country had ever seen, and while relief organizations such as the Red Cross were tending to the human survivors, and movie stars and celebrities were airlifting food and endorsing seven-figure checks, a much smaller and meagerly funded effort was underway to save the four-legged victims. With no prior experience in disaster response and no real grasp of the hell that awaited them, scores of animal lovers, including McLaughlin, made their way to the Gulf Coast to help in any way they could. Including photos from four-time Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Carol Guzy, Mississippi Barking spans the course of two years as McLaughlin and others ventured into the wreckage of the Gulf Coast to rescue the animals left behind. McLaughlin tells the moving stories of the people she met along the way, both those who lost everything to the hurricane and those working beside her rescuing and transporting animals away from the neglected, derelict conditions in which they barely survived. Within this story of tragedy and cruelty, suffering and ignorance, Mississippi Barking also bears witness to selfless acts of bravery and compassion, and the beauty and heroics of those who risked everything to save the animals that could not save themselves.
Book Synopsis Under Surge, Under Siege by : Ellis Anderson
Download or read book Under Surge, Under Siege written by Ellis Anderson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 Eudora Welty Book Prize and the Mississippi Library Association’s Nonfiction Author’s Award for 2011 Under Surge, Under Siege shows how Hurricane Katrina tore into Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, raking away lives, buildings, and livelihoods in a place known for its picturesque, coastal views; its laid-back, artsy downtown; and its deep-dyed southern cordiality. The tragedy also revealed the inner workings of a community with an indomitable heart and profound neighborly bonds. Those connections often brought out the best in people under the worst of circumstances. In Under Surge, Under Siege, Ellis Anderson, who rode out the storm in her Bay St. Louis home and sheltered many neighbors afterwards, offers stories of generosity, heroism, and laughter in the midst of terror and desperate uncertainty. Divided into two parts, this book invites readers into the intimate enclave before, during, and after the storm. “Under Surge” focuses on connections between residents, and then it demonstrates how those bonds sustained them through the worst hurricane in US history. “Under Siege” documents the first three years of the grinding aftermath, detailing the unforeseen burdens of stress and depression, insurance scandals, and opportunists that threatened to complete the annihilation of the plucky town. A blend of memoir, personal diary, and firsthand reportage, Under Surge, Under Siege creates a compelling American testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Book Synopsis Mississippi after Katrina by : Jennifer Trivedi
Download or read book Mississippi after Katrina written by Jennifer Trivedi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the American Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Biloxi, Mississippi, a small town on the coast, was one of the towns devastated directly by the storm. Drawing on ethnographic, media, and historic document research and analysis, Jennifer Trivedi explores the pre-disaster cultural, historical, social, political, and economic distinctions that shaped the recovery ofBiloxi and Biloxians. Trivedi examines how networks of people, groups, and institutions worked to prepare for and recover from the hurricane, reinforcing the distinctions that existed before the storm.
