Katrina Stories - New Town-New School (1 of 2)

This is Part 1 of 2 where we listen to reflections from high school students.  No one was allowed back into the city for at least a month after hurricane Katrina.  It took many more months to get schools up and running, which forced students to enroll in new schools in unfamiliar towns.  Most students were met with some level of tension and difficulty in making this transition.  In this episode, Patti, Sylvester and Derrick, Justine and Jimmy tell us about the hardships they faced in making this transition to new environments.

Katrina Stories is a documentary podcast built from first-person accounts recorded after Hurricane Katrina as part Mondo Bizarro's I-10 Witness Project. Each episode weaves together voices that reveal the human impact of the storm—stories of loss, resilience, anger and hope. The series preserves these testimonies as living history, offering listeners an intimate connection to the people and places forever changed by the disaster.  

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