A 14 minute video showing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the public schools in St. Tammany was shown at the recent School Board meeting in Slidell. Here's a link to that video.
Click on the "Play Triangle" above to view the video.
I worked in the Public Information Office at the school board at the time, and we were kept busy sending out press releases, notices to displaced school board personnel and information about how some schools had to share their facilities with other schools that had been totally destroyed.
The Covington High School gym became a shelter
Since banks and ATM's were not available for weeks afterwards, it was a difficult time for many school board employees (as well as everyone else in the parish) who had bills to pay, houses to repair, and flooded cars to replace.
I recall the huge trash removal trucks with their mechanical claws that would roam neighborhood to neighborhood, picking up large piles of limbs and trees that had been uprooted.
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