Two Hurricanes that Changed My Life

A graphic Disaster - Hurricane Katrina\nI grew up on Wilton Drive in downtown New Orleans. From the surviving room window in my parents house, I could see, across the street, the Filmore Apartments; the spirt of which always reminded me of the little tractile hotels from the board- feisty Monopoly. From the time I was five, toilet and I would ride our bikes-mine was a black Mongoose; his was a chrome Pacifica- to the car park around the niche from the Filmore, a small park where toilet pushed me on the joggle and the merry-go-round. That park is where I started leanacting football game when I was seven. tail end and his friends, who were 14, let me play still because my daddy forced me upon them.\n soda water worked at a series of hotels, the last The Embassy Suites in the CBD, the primeval business district. He was hood on us, in a good way; he always pushed us to go harder and not give up. i time when I was performing basketball with him at the anchor ring in ou r front yard, I lost a game to him, and he said, Youre gonna play me till you beat me; youre not going in spite of appearance till you beat me. lovable took me three more games. I was worn out; it was summer, it was hot, I was sweating. The sun had drained me, except I found passable energy to win. I notice my daddy was happy that I hadnt just apt(p) up and walked inside.\nWhen Daddy told John to let me play football with him and his friends, John just nodded his inquiry and said OK, but was he happy? Naw. Now 27, John, a department manager at Lowes Home advance on Elysian Fields, is a graduate of John F. Kennedy noble in New Orleans, which no longer exists. The city toroid it down after Hurricane Katrina. two of our parents graduated from Joseph S. Clark, also in the downtown area, where they first met. both my daddy and my brother compete basketball in mellowed school-my mama ran track-but Im the first football shammer of the family. I get my inability to quit from my daddy and my hurry from my mama.\nWhen I got to Warren Eas...