Angela Trahan, age 27, is a Katrina survivor from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. She begins by talking about her childhood and the good qualities of the town where she was raising her kids. The day before the storm Bay St. Louis became a ghost town, because a lot of people evacuated and a lot of stores sold out of merchandise. Angela described their preparation for the storm at St. Stanislaus’s Catholic boarding school, where her mother was scheduled to work to feed international students who were staying through the storm. Angela and her family had to evacuate during the storm, since the cafeteria flooded. After almost being pushed off of a second story by strong winds, Angela and her family survived the storm.

Angela and her family stayed in Bay St. Louis a week and half after the storm, before a lack of necessities and Angela missing her daughter forced them to fix up a car and drive it to Houston. Along the way, people offered to help pay for their gas and food.