Blog #1

For this blog I read a story about Hurricane Katrina from CNN.com written by Kathleen Koch. It is from the point of view of a journalist of the hurricane who grew up in Bay St. Louis-- a town that got hit by the storm. It was a very personal article and the way it was written made it possible to understand what it might be like to be in this situation. I can't imagine getting such short notice of a deadly storm approaching and evacuating knowing that you might never be able to see your house again. The author talks about driving away and trying to remember every last detail of her house before it was too late. She came back to find everything in sight completely destroyed- and people starving and dying because of the bad shelter conditions. I remember hearing about Hurricane Katrina and was too young to understand how tragic the situation really was. Losing all of your possessions, seeing the people you love get hurt, not having a place to call home. It makes me very grateful that i live in an area where this kind of weather does not exist. I also makes me appreciate the things I have even more, because like the victims of Hurricane Katrina, it could all be taken away without much of a warning.

MLA:
Koch, Kathleen. "Covering a disaster in your hometown". CNN 30 Aug 2006.