Katrina: Cry The Crescent City (To be released soon in eBook form for download.)
French Quarter Press
Louisiana. She is the only child of the infamous Bourbon Street
headliner "Dottie Lee" (Delores Jeanette), who died tragically, at a
young age. Donna is the author of Flying Through Life Without A Net:
Memoirs of a Bourbon Street Showgirl's Daughter.
Due to a commitment to a book signing at Barns & Noble in her home city
of New Orleans she was stranded at her home there when Katrina hit the
crescent city. Here are some of her comments at the beginning of her
new book about narrowly escaping the tragedy with her life.
"When the book signing was over at Barnes & Noble my cousin Wanda
called from Georgia. She was frantic about the storm coming and asked
what Larry and I had planned. I told her we had no choice, I had felt
that my commitment to the book signing was very important and now it
was too late, we were preparing to ride out Katrina!
Our neighbor was also left behind, unable to get out of the city, so he
too was in the same boat as we were. I told him we were going over to
9th Street to a second floor apartment. I asked him if he wanted to
ride the storm out with us. He said "yes, I'll bring my generator."
On the 28th. of August my husband and I went to the empty apartment on
9th Street and climbed to the second floor. It's a 3-story building
and then there is the roof. I thought, well I don't think the water
could get that high. I remember sitting on the balcony looking at a
beautiful swimming pool and thinking, this is a category 5 hurricane
and we were just 4 blocks from Lake Pontchartrain. In my mind's eye I
saw the four blocks of apartments and homes blowing us away like
matchsticks.
About 5a.m. Katrina made a realistic impact. The power went down. The
tops of the trees were, as I like to call it, kissing the ground.
Usually a hurricane lasts a day, then its business as usual here in New
Orleans. Not Katrina, she came on the 29th of August and only time will
tell when, if ever, things will be back to normal here in the Crescent
City.
Wanda was already upset that we were going to stay. She kept calling me
at the apartment. In fact she called while Katrina was sounding like a
freight train outside. I remember holding the phone out so she could
hear. I remember asking her can you hear it. She said "yes I can why
did you stay?" That was the last time I got to talk to anyone in my
family..........."
Katrina: Cry The Crecent City
Will Be Published Soon
Please visit her site to learn more about her books.
http://www.donnateer.com