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Contains 265 Results:

Nguyen, Lai, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-MBU-SR01
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Lai Nguyen [LN], about 71 years of age, is a Katrina evacuee. She left VN in 1975 and it would take her three years before she’d set foot onto U.S. soil. She left VN as a single mom with three young children along with her other siblings [a brother and a sister]. The group escaped by boat and their boat was turned away by Singapore. Eventually, the group was taken in by a country [name unknown], and she arrived to New Orleans in 1978. After a few months in New Orleans [N.O.], LN moved to...

Lewis, Shawayne, 2007

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-MPJ-SR02
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2007
Summary

Shawayne Lewis, 15, is a Katrina survivor from Eastern New Orleans. After surviving the challenge of wading through rising flood water, the horrors of the inhumanity of the Super Dome’s conditions, and the discrimination of unsympathetic, young Houstonians Shawayne sees Katrina and Houston as opportunities to achieve success she never thought about.

Lewis, Dwayne, 2007

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-MPJ-SR03
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2007
Summary Dwayne Lewis [DL], 17, is a Katrina survivor from Eastern New Orleans. Dwayne had just reunited with his family and was starting his sophomore year at Abramson High School where he had only been living for eight months when the storm hit. Dwayne had to guide his mother and sisters to safety while they floated on an air mattress through the rising flood waters. He also survived the predators and the filthiness of the Superdome, and threats of males being killed and only females and children...

Reiss, Governor, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-NE-SR01
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Governor Reiss, age 26, is a Katrina evacuee from the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. His interview begins with some details of his early life and goes on to describe his adolescence and his job as a longshoreman before becoming a Christian hip-hop artist. Governor gives a long description of how he heard about the hurricane and why he was hesitant to evacuate for the storm. The drive to Houston was filled with ominous messages but once he gets to Houston a house overflowing with...

Washington, Sharon, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-NE-SR02
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Sharon Washington, age 42, is a Katrina survivor from the Seventh Ward of was New Orleans; she was born in New Orleans and grew up in the Seventh Ward. She stayed behind with her grandchildren and recounts some of her most vivid memories of being in New Orleans during the flood. After being brought to the Superdome, they were evacuated to the Astrodome and eventually aided by members of a church called The ROCK (Reflections Of Christ’s Kingdom), located south of Houston in Alvin, Texas. She...

Jones, Gloria Porter, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-NE-SR03
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Born in Donaldsonville, a small town upriver from New Orleans, Gloria is now an evacuee of New Orleans living in Alvin, Texas. In this interview she discusses her life as a cook in the Ninth Ward, a place that she describes as being a great place to grow-up and live. Gloria and 12 other family members, most of whom were not adults, went to the Superdome to wait until the storm passed. She vividly describes what happened in the Dome before, during and after the hurricane with days of the week...

Armstrong, Henry, and Griffin, Dorothy, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-NE-SR04
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Henry, 59 and his mother Dorothy, 82, are both native to New Orleans, Louisiana. Henry insisted that his mother be a part of the interview because she was such a big part of what he went through, so while Henry is the main storyteller Dorothy shares her experiences in the beginning and end of the interview. Although Henry was scheduled to work the day before the storm his concern for the safety of his mother and his family members moves him to not go to work but rather make sure his mother...

Guidry, Michael, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-NE-SR05
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Michael, a native of New Orleans, returned to Houston as an evacuee from New Orleans. Some years prior he received his Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) in painting from the University of Houston. He lost his job, his studio and all of his belonging that were in it as a result of the events that followed hurricane Katrina. Michael was about to rely heavily on his social network of artists and art professionals to help him cope with the first few weeks of being in Houston and to get a great job at...

Kennedy, Yarmon, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-NE-SR06
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary In August of 2006 Yarmon Kennedy was in New Orleans as a graduate student at Tulane’s business school for finance. It should also be noted that the interviewer is good friends with Yarmon’s girlfriend. Once Yarmon took the approaching hurricane as a serious threat, he evacuated to Houston, which is where he grew up and where his family still lived. Rather than needing help Yarmon spent a lot of time and energy helping other evacuees that were not as fortunate. He enrolled at the University...

Landrenieu, Ann, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-NE-SR07
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Ann is from “Cajun country” Louisiana but had made Lakeview New Orleans her home when Katrina hit. She went to college at Louisiana State University (LSU) and was working as a pharmaceutical sales representative. After serious reservations Ann evacuated with a friend and his children to her hometown Ville Plate, Louisiana. There it was like a family reunion before the flooding happened and people realized what happened to their homes. The Lakeview are was underwater due to the flooding that...

Guidroz, Glen A., 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-NE-SR08
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Glen was born in New Orleans during a hurricane, and he lived most of his life in New Orleans prior to hurricane Katrina. Glen also obtained a Masters Degree in Sociology from Tulane University. Glen worked in real estate prior to opening his antique and imported furniture shop in New Orleans, which he owned and operated for more than 35 years.. At the time of hurricane Katrina, Glen had a house in Waveland, Mississippi and was renting an apartment in New Orleans on Magazine Street, near his...

Righteous, Jared, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-NE-SR09
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Jared was born in New Orleans and has lived there his entire life. He worked as a tutor in the New Orleans school district the summer before hurricane Katrina and was living in New Orleans East at his parent’s house with five other family members. He evacuated to Atlanta the Saturday before the hurricane and stayed there for a month before moving to Houston. He came to Houston because a friend was starting a school for the displaced New Orleans students and had a job specifically for Jared. ...

Britton, Joan, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-NE-SR10
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Joan, now 53 years old, spent her whole life in New Orleans and did not evacuate the city before the hurricane hit. Joan was a school bus driver for the Orleans Parish school district and also drove an airport shuttle. The Sunday that the storm began to approach Joan was staying in a third floor apartment with her daughter’s family that included: her daughter (Leslie), a son-in law (her daughter’s husband), two young children (a boy and a girl) and the son-in-law’s mother. Men on boats came...

Holnes, Darrel, 2007

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-NMP-SR01
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2007
Summary

Darrel Holnes [DH], age 19, a Katrina and Rita evacuee. Recently moved to New Orleans to attend Loyola University, evacuated New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. Originally from Panama City, Panama and lived in New Orleans two weeks prior Hurricane Katrina. DH evacuated to Houston and is living on campus at the University of Houston enjoying school and student life. DH shares evacuating with family for Rita and reflects on brief Katrina moments.

Parker, Annette, and Parker, Edward, 2007

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-NMP-SR02
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2007
Summary Annette Parker [AP], age 65 and Edward Parker [EP], age 70, are a married couple now living in Houston as a result of Hurricane Katrina. They formerly lived in New Orleans East and owned a home in Warrick East subdivision. Together they were at Methodist Hospital in New Orleans East when Katrina struck. AP had surgery so they were not able to evacuate. They made sure there children were safe and they would ride the hurricane out in the hospital. They didn’t have the choice of evacuating...