Katrina Museum and The Town

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Today we are starting off our day with the wonderful yet devastating Katrina Museum. When you walk into the museum and look up there are glass bottles hanging from the ceiling. These bottle’s have a white piece of paper with a name on it in remembrance of a person that lost their life to this horrible storm. When entering the exhibit on the right there are displays set with TVs talking about the hurricanes that have happened over the years. To think that all these hurricanes have happened, yet people continue to rebuild in a city that could potentially destroy all of their possessions is a big deal. This city has so much meaning and history that it is worth constantly rebuilding. After looking at the hurricanes over the years you enter a room of survivors. There are displaces of clothes that were worn, rescue items, even walls of an apartment.

This part of the museum was my favorite because it had lights that directed you to the display they were talking about. As you listen to the survivors of the Katrina Hurricane it makes you question why and how such an catastrophe happen. Hearing stories about how moms where stuck on a balcony with her children and how rescuers had to hold babies that were too tiny for a harness so hey had to hold tight so they would not drop them. There was a display of a mans clothes which seemed interesting to me, so I went over and read his story. I found out that these were the clothes of a man who sent his family to a safe area and he stayed back waiting for the storm so he could get in his boat and rescue people. He was a retired fisherman and new how to deal with rough conditions on the water.