New Iberia Research Paper

It all started on a Saturday morning in West Esplanade, Shareba Teno, was lying in bed. Suddenly, she is jolted out of her bed by her husband bursting out for her to pack as they must evacuate. There were warning alerts all over the television, Hurricane Katrina was coming and it had a poweful for behind it. It was on August 29, 2005 hat Hurricane Katrina hit. To everyone's surprise it made history as a category five hurricane. The storm was so powerful the levees were unable to hold the surge of water that eighty percent of the city was surrounded by. The weakened levees broke and the city flooded which caused a massive amount of deaths and thousands of others to lose everything they owned. Bodies were found randomly floating in the deep …show more content…
Upon figuring out that moving back was no longer an option she decided to move back to New Iberia. New Iberia was her hometown and she knew she had a large support system to help her figure out how to get back on her feet. She and her husband no longer had any jobs to back to, and everything was a new beginning. She found herself at the age of 30 back at zero trying to figure out how their family would survive. Coming back to New Iberia was a shocker. It was one of the places she told herself she would never come back to to stay. But now that she had to make it her home again she was surprised at the many things had changed since many people had evacuated to New Iberia. She recalls how she now had to pay at the pump because too many people were stealing gas. In addition, how a curfew was in place because the crime rate was rising because of robberies and muggings. New Iberia as she remembered was different it felt gloomy to her. To add to all the stressors of coming back to New Iberia, a couple of months after temporarily moving back Hurricane Rita hit and she remembers a fear coming over that she never had before. She then realized that she would never look at hurricane warnings the same