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Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the survivors and the first respondents are considering how her personal difficulties pushed her to maintain and recreate New Orleans.
Salavation Army captain David Bright said, “I was trying to get my parents.” “But I didn’t realize that God was using me to save others. After losing almost everything in Katrina, including a parents, I don’t believe that I had the privilege of sharing my faith now.”
In August 2005, the world noticed that Hurricane Katrina became the most deadly and expensive storm in the US in that devastation, in an attempt to save its parents, went on a two-and-a-half-day mission through flood roads, saving others on the way.
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Due to the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, the debris piled on the road. (Salvation Army)
Riding in an airbot from Highway 10, the brittle moved forward despite the police warning. He passed the Garden District and French Quarter, prestigious sites which were unfamiliar.
“I never saw or felt dark before,” he said. “You were screaming in a distance to the gunshot, helicopter overhead and people.”
A few weeks before the brittle set on his discovery, he was working with his wife and children in Texas for a Lumis armored car. His family then decided to attend New Orleans, where his father, Major Bhangur, worked as the Area Commander of the Salvation Army.
As the storm intensified, Major stopped to keep the center of Hope Shelter open in the city and encouraged his son to take his wife and children to his sister’s house in Houston, on a 12-hour drive.
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In August 2005, Jefferson in Louisiana, people affected by Hurricane Katrina Line to get assistance from the Salvation Army in Louisiana. (Salvation Army)
When Katrina made a landfall, more than this 50 Leves And the floods failed, causing 80% of the floods of the city. One of those buildings was the center of hope. However, there was no match for the wealth power of the storm, settled on a modest inclination.
“For this, to go to the first floor of the building, it’s a lot of water,” said Captain Bright.
In an attempt to save the lives of those people in the flood shelter, major brittle -like flickers like Morse Code are trying to draw attention to helicopters. Desperate, through flood waters, they repeatedly tried to reach the respondents first using a pephone, only to listen to the deaf sound of silence at the other end. And then, a miracle.
In the final attempt to help, he grabbed the phone, slowly brought it to his ear, and finally heard a dial tone. Knowing that he would not have much time, he called his son.
“He said that ‘just in the event of something happening, if we don’t make it? I just want to tell you that I love you guys.” Just while he was speaking, the phone was dead, “Captain Bright said, remembering the final conversation with his father.
In August 2005, a Salvation Army truck was brought from Greater New York to assist in recovery efforts after the destruction of the Gulf coast due to Hurricane Katrina. (Salvation Army)
That call was that moment brittle and his sister knew that he had to return. When they moved towards Louisiana, they stayed in Baton Rouge Salvation Army Relief Post. After growing up around his father’s colleagues, he was able to reach David and join a boat crew, searching for the flooded neighborhood.
He said, “We were saving people because we had gone, taking them out of our homes,” he said.
But as more hours passed, Hope began to fade.
“I lost hope,” he accepted. “The goals we have set did not look like they were going to happen.”
Then a call was received on CB radio in which it was announced that 300 people at the center of Hope were removed from the roof.
He and his sister reached the cloverlide drop-off site in Metari, where the survivors were being brought by the helicopter.
Swayamsevaks with the Salvation Army provide food and assistance to those affected by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. (Salvation Army)
“We found the Salvation Army canteen there,” he recalled. “I grew up around the Salvation Army, so I knew many people. I just went to them and said,” Hey, have you seen Major Richard brittle? ” And he said, “Yes, he left just the baton rose.” ,
Without any hesitation, Captain Bright moved back to the baton Rouge.
“When my father went out, we hugged.
Two years later, after a parasitic contracted in the flood waters, the chief brittle developed cancer and died, his son said. Bangla gets objective in that loss.
“I don’t think I would be an officer today if my father was still alive,” he said. “His witnesses and his call helped me take me to the mine.”
Recalling his harsh journey 20 years after the storm, he told Fox News Digital that he found peace in the tragedy as the community was able to rebuild.
“We can take some disastrous, and some can come from it,” he said. “Culture is back. Asha is back. By going through things you appreciate life a little more.”
It is exactly that Meghan Phole, now the National Director of Emergency Services of the Salvation Army saw.
Katrina, after three years, Foli earned her teaching degree and went to New Orleans, working in a newly opened charter school, worked out of a trailer in a collapse of a demolished complex.
“They were reshuffled from school to school, and most were academically behind because the infrastructure broke so much,” he said. “They told me the stories of being saved by helicopters, and they will just say,” Okay, that’s what happened, Ms. Meghan. ” As it was normal. ,
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A Salvation Army Volunteer goes through toy donations in August 2005 after the storm to parts of the Gulf coast. (Salvation Army)
Foli said that although these children had terrible stories to share, they still saw them positively. Foli began to understand that community flexibility meant to balance the trauma of the past with the cultural bliss that brought by New Orleans.
She recalls her first mardi grass with students whose parents were part of the cracking coconut painted in the crowd. So he planned a lesson to paint coconut.
“I was teaching science, so the children could decide if they wanted to decorate them on the basis of the water cycle or life cycle … those things they were learning in the classroom,” Foli said.
As he saw that his students paint those coconuts, it did not matter that he was in an unknown class setting; He was happy to celebrate the culture of New Orleans.
She says that there was a juice of a juice to move forward to move forward the trauma of the storm and the joy of the city.
“Flexibility is not just a discussion, it is using pleasure as a tool for recovery of people,” Foli said. “They trust each other. This makes New Orleans unique.”
