Chris A. Quest [CAQ], age 52, is a Katrina survivor from Gentilly, New Orleans, Louisiana. He describes his neighborhood as vibrant. He lived about 20 years on Treasure Street between Music Street and Art Street. The neighbors shared whatever they had with each other. His neighborhood had changed recently by having an increase in crime. He believes that you have to educate your children on the danger of drugs that have been placed in the community. CAQ has family values that his grandparents have passed on to him and he’s passing it on to his son and daughters. His grandfather and grandmother were his role models and lived a life that taught him the traditional value of marriage and the importance of family. Chris talked about some of the stories that his grandfather would share with him as a child. His grandfather was a great story teller and he had a favorite story he would tell them often about his grandmother. CAQ has passed these stories on to his son. He remembers the day (September 5, 1965) that Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans and how many people died in the Lower Ninth Ward. He was a teenager of 14 years at the time. He believes that the levee was blown up purposely. He described how the levee looked after the storm: a huge hole in which the neighborhod kids would go swimming. That was evidence that there was an explosive that caused the breech in the levee. Chris is enjoying living in Houston, Texas and was welcomed in a warm manner by Houstonians. He’s trying to get his wife to want to live here, but they have plans to rebuild their home in New Orleans. There was no plan in place to evacuate the people of New Orleans. “If you don’t plan, you plan to fail. That’s real: there was no plan and they failed, they failed the people who they were supposed to protect and serve.”