Tiffany Cloud [TC], age 30, is a Katrina survivor from New Orleans, LA. TC introduces herself as married, mother of a four month old, as well as, “a product of a single parent household.” She discusses her mother’s struggle to send her to private school, as well as the experience of being Baptist, attending private schools. TC was a teacher in the Orleans parish school system. She contrasts teaching in predominately poor, Black schools with limited resources in New Orleans with teaching in similar circumstances in Richmond, Virginia. TC talks about how, the week before hurricane Katrina, she was teaching about hurricanes, explaining the role of FEMA, Red Cross, and the city of New Orleans being below sea level. TC shares her experience of evacuating with her husband, baby, and disabled father-in-law to a hotel in Metairie, their car getting a flat trying to evacuate there, and their subsequently having to hitch hike back to their apartment in Jefferson parish where they were able to retrieve her car from the garage and evacuate to Humble, Texas to her sister-in-law’s house. TC spent two days substituting in Aldine ISD, and discovered, “I didn’t like it, and it wasn’t the people there, it was just my mind wasn’t there, it was like I had these kids that I liked, that I really got, you know, these first two weeks of school, I mean, it was just the first two weeks but I really liked these kids, to go to a school where the kids, the kids didn’t look like my kids, I had maybe two Black kids in the class, the rest were Hispanic, and one White student, and it was like going from New Orleans to here and trying to get back on track, I wasn’t ready yet. So, I, I did, I substituted in the schools for two days and, I didn’t like the feeling of knowing that I wasn’t the teacher, I was just a substitute, and that’s not me, so I quit, and, I said I would just stay home, you know, get my mind together, and I’ll just teach next year, once all of this, you know, kind of, blows over and we get used to being in Texas, then I’ll do it, I just thought that moving into that so quick, that just wasn’t healthy, and a lot of people did that but it just wasn’t a good idea for me.” TC hopes to come across some New Orleans kids when she gets back in the classroom and find out their stories of hurricane Katrina. TC became emotional during the interview when telling her cousin’s story of evacuating in a car with all blown out windows except for the windshield, with her six-month old baby sitting in broken glass flying around the car. TC discusses learning of her student-teaching mentor’s death and how that story affected her emotionally for weeks after hearing it. TC did not evacuate for hurricane Rita. She shares her and her husband’s experience of going south, to the Medical Center in Houston to see her newly acquired doctor due to her pregnancy, the day before hurricane Rita, he had evacuated, she saw another doctor who was able to assure them that everything was fine, then, their experience in gridlock traffic. TC will miss the uniqueness of New Orleans, as well as, the proximity of everything being fifteen minutes away. Her mother has recently moved to the Houston area, however, she misses family from which she is still separated.