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Recovering from Hurricane Harvey: Advice from a Katrina survivor

Published on September 5, 2017 under CommunityImpact

Cherie Franz, her husband Art and their daughter Annabelle fled New Orleans in the middle of the night two days before Hurricane Katrina made landfall in August 2005. Confident in her family’s swift return, the Franzs brought only a few items of clothing, some toys and a photo album. They had no idea it would be 10 months before they came home. “I was preparing for a wind event,” Cherie Franz said. “I told Art to put the computer on the bed, I remember saying, ‘If we have that much water [enough to reach the computer], we are in trouble.’” […]

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Source: Community Impact- Round Rock

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