Tag: Harvey

Students Aid Harvey Relief Efforts

“I didn’t sleep that night,” said Jamie Guillen (19C), who couldn’t help but feel guilty and worried as she lay in her safe bed at Emory while friends and family back in Houston, Texas, fought to survive the devastating Category...

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Lessons from Katrina: FEMA’s Faults

Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf shore of the United States on Aug. 29, 2005, inducing devastation in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Twelve years later, America is dealing with a similar crisis in the form of...

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Kindness Weathers the Storm

I know how a city smells after being underwater. Hurricane Katrina hit my home when I was seven years old. We weren’t expecting Katrina to turn into a category five storm, but it did. My family and I left New Orleans with one...

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News Roundup | 8.29.17

Carter Center Launches Liberian Election Observation LIBERIA — The Carter Center announced an international mission to observe Liberia’s Oct. 10 presidential and legislative elections, according to an Aug. 28 Carter Center press...

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