Last Day

Presbytere is the building on the right of the St. Louis Cathedral

Super dome where everyone took refuge after Hurricane Katrina

My favorite place in the French Quarter would be the visiting the Presbytere and the Hurricane Katrina memorial. I would have to say favorite place very lightly because it was not something, I would say would be memorable in a joyful way but memorable in a way that awakened so many emotions. I would recommend everyone to come to New Orleans at least once in their lives to walk through this powerful museum that they have put together to provide you with an experience with which you will be able to put yourself as close as you’d ever want to be without actually being in a hurricane so you can try to imagine what it was like. I felt the emotions of uncertainty as I heard the news announce the weather that was coming, that uncertainty turned into anxiety as I saw the news announce that there was a hurricane coming and that anyone that could should get out of New Orleans. Those that couldn’t get out because they had no way of getting out because they had no transportation or nowhere to go were stuck, I began to cry for them. The poor, the elderly, those children where are they supposed to go, what are they supposed to do? Throughout the museum all you could hear was the winds blowing loudly and the rain, so much rain. The depth of emotions I felt listening to the calls to 911, the stories of survival and the stories of heroism hit me in my heart. In the end of the museum you could see the structural explanations of the levee and why it couldn’t hold all of the water and why it broke loose causing all of the flooding in the 9^th district. What could have prevented it and what they have done to rebuild after the hurricane. It was very moving to hear and see how many people came from all over the world to help with the cleanup and the rebuild after the hurricane. Of course right after the hurricane hit there are things that didn’t go so well and New Orleans did not get the help that they needed as quickly as they needed to that would have saved quite a few lives and homes and in the museum this is brought up in many different ways which is why everyone should visit this museum.