Predict

What will happen to Samantha’s family and her home?

Tuesday, August 30, 2005, part 2

First News from Home

We lost our home. The levees broke and water spilled into the streets.

Our home is gone. St. Bernard is completely under the water, and we have nothing now.

Saturday, September 3, 2005

Just Darkness and the Cry of a Million Crickets

I want to go home. I miss so many things about my home. We don’t even know how long it’ll be before they’ll let us back into the parish, to save what we can and realize all that we lost.

Friday, September 16, 2005

Guilt and Doubt

Now my family is in Ponchatoula, Louisiana.

We’re living on a lot that used to belong to our friend’s grandmother. The three of us are living in the camper, and it’s tight.

Here, I have some friends from my old school, and even though I was never really close with any of them, it’s comforting looking around and seeing something familiar.