Katrina Survivors In Other States! Is life better or worse?

[PhenomenalWoman]

Let me throw my tissue away! That was a very inspirational story, it gave me a whole new outlook and surely inspired me and should inspire anyone who read it. That's just what i needed to hear right about now.

[BetaBeta]

Before I left Dallas I heard quite a few stories on the local news, for example a school teacher that got recertified to teach in Dallas and was making double the salary so she was able to afford a house, another woman that had worked in the French quarter as a waitress for 10 years was able to get a loan from the SBA and open her own bistro that was doing quite well.. The one that really stands out in memory was the couple that were rasing their relatives six kids before the storm and both had to work two jobs to make ends meet. A group donated them a house, mortgage free, and they were able to find jobs that paid enough until they only had to work one job each and could spend more time with the children. I remember that one because at the end the 5 year old said, "The storm was bad but now Uncle John can read me stories at night so I'm happy." It was like a hallmark commercial.

[homesheba]

we are on the beach here in mississippi and got hit very hard and inland also.
not as much was about us on the media as new orleans
,so many people didnt know how hard we got hit..
it is being rebuilt tho- and even has higher condos and bridges.
.it will look like much of florida i think now , with the pastel colors.
i pray we dont have anymore like katrina.
ive been in them all starting with Camille, and we thought that was the worst!

[desol11]

i guess you can call me a evacuee, but i was a new orleans fire fighter,, that work through the hurricane. i moved to ft worth with my whole family in january 06. life has been very good since i moved here, so good that i have not been back to the n.o. but three times , and that was because i had to bulldoze one home and the other is getting rebuilt back to rent out. in new orleans i owned two homes and the rest of my family owned homes in new orleans east ,the bullard area so we were not poor. now my family which consist of my mom, grandmother,four aunts , three cousins owns new big homes in ft worth and dallas.

[cajunwoman]

We were fortunate enough...We had already been planning to move to Oregon in 2010. While we were waiting to be rescued, my husband said let's just go on
to Oregon if we can. I asked @ the Ford Center in Beaumont, TX, explained we wanted Oregon & DONT want to return, so american airlines & Red Cross got us
here!
The people of Portland, OR have been good to us.
I'm even starting to feel like THIS is home now.
I met my husband in NOLA, so I wouldn't trade that for
the World, but to go back? Not even a consideration.
Poor for our physical AND mental health.