Hurricane Katrina was a category three hurricane off the Gulf Coast. Many countries and states lost their homes and families to this horror: Bahamas, Florida, Cuba, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. There were high wind speeds up to 174 miles per hour. I could not imagine being a young child in this disaster. At the time, I was seven years old. I don’t know how I would ever handle myself at the small age of seven in a hurricane this disastrous. What about the kids who got separated from their family? At young ages, kids would not know what to do if they were put in this situation. 1,833 lives were lost in seven days of this hurricane. Many other catastrophic hurricanes hit the world in the twenty-first century: Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Ike, and Hurricane
Hurricane Katrina was a category three hurricane off the Gulf Coast. Many countries and states lost their homes and families to this horror: Bahamas, Florida, Cuba, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. There were high wind speeds up to 174 miles per hour. I could not imagine being a young child in this disaster. At the time, I was seven years old. I don’t know how I would ever handle myself at the small age of seven in a hurricane this disastrous. What about the kids who got separated from their family? At young ages, kids would not know what to do if they were put in this situation. 1,833 lives were lost in seven days of this hurricane. Many other catastrophic hurricanes hit the world in the twenty-first century: Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Ike, and Hurricane