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The day before Hurricane Katrina hit, 24-year-old Kimberly Rivers Roberts, a resident of New Orleans' 9th Ward, turned her new video camera on herself, declaring, "It's going to be a day to remember." With hardly any supplies and no way of leaving her hometown, Roberts taped her harrowing ordeal as Katrina raged and the levees failed. Directed and produced by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, TROUBLE THE WATER opens with this unforgettable home video footage, then follows Kimberly and her husband Scott on a two-year odyssey - from the devastation of the storm to their escape from the city, to resettlement in Memphis, to an eventual return to a decimated New Orleans - telling a story of transformation, heroism and love. A 2008 Academy Award® nominee for Best Documentary Feature. Premieres on HBO Thursday, April 23 at 8:30pm ET/PT.
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I was living in Upstate NY at the time of Katrina. Quite a few rescued pets were placed in our local shelter there. Many were reunited with their family. The rest were all adopted out pretty quickly. I myself adopted a border collie pup named Lucy. She was only a couple of days old when the storm hit. She is a terrific dog and a true member of our family. I just wish there was more we could have done.
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> Thanks Ginna,
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> That was very kind and your post was very thoughtful
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It's easy to get caught up in the human drama and forget that our animals get caught up in their own drama too. Disasters by definition do not allow us the freedom to make many choices, and sadly the most wrenching of decisions is leaving your pet behind while getting yourself to safety. Sometimes the choice is made more difficult with the knowledge that most agencies don't take pets into consideration when people evacuate - animals aren't allowed on buses, in shelters, etc. So even if you get them out, there is no where for them to go! Faced with that choice, alot of pet owners risk their own lives by staying with their pets rather than worry about their own personal safety.
Fortunately, steps were taken in 2006 by the old administration to help address this problem by the approval of the little-known Pet Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act. Basically what it says is that state and local agencies must make provisions in their disaster plans that include the needs of pet owners and their pets.
So, with this bill, God forbid if there is another disaster of this magnitude, pets may have more of a fighting chance than what we saw with Katrina. 
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> This was a very humbling piece of work. I was in
> tears at how God uses ordinary people, the ones
> people in high places and some cases low places look
> down on. I was mostly struck by the humbleness of
> each one of them. Their lives had been in places
> many of us have never seen, yet they were able to
> express a thank you anyway to some who turned their
> back on them. We should all learn from this. God
> bless you and your family. Wait.... HE already has.
> Please continue to move forward in the right
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> Denise
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Thank you for your great post and sentiments, deedee. Very eloquent. And yes, this brought me to tears as well.
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This was a very humbling piece of work. I was in tears at how God uses ordinary people, the ones people in high places and some cases low places look down on. I was mostly struck by the humbleness of each one of them. Their lives had been in places many of us have never seen, yet they were able to express a thank you anyway to some who turned their back on them. We should all learn from this. God bless you and your family. Wait.... HE already has. Please continue to move forward in the right direction.
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> Thanks Ginna,
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I think most were so shocked by horror of this happening and how many were displaced that we simply overlooked the animals. The reporting was heartbreaking and made you reconsider how safe you really were. I think I recall a report Anderson Cooper did on the animals and those who were trying to get access to help them.
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adoniram313, I agree with Ginna, yours was a great post and I am glad you shared your emotion with us! Don't feel the need to apologize, the fact that you were so moved is nothing to be sorry for!
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Thanks Ginna,
That was very kind and your post was very thoughtful
... i never thought about how vunerable animals were during this ordeal
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> I'm proud to be American
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> I'm proud to be of African descent... (i'm not black,
> im a reddish brown color similar to the ancient
> egyptians)
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> sorry for the rants... i'm just overcome with emotion
> right now
Katrina and it's continuing aftermath has invoked intense emotion ever sense she swept through, so don't apologize. Your post was intense, but so very honest. Thank you for sharing with us.
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more thoughts.....
Brian was an amazing person. Of course he has some shortfalls, but i would love to meet him.. hug him.. and tell him another brother feels his struggle
Once they bailed out "Wink"... and he spoke of the hurricane from his perspective.. i was actually riveted...i clenched my fists and gritted my teeth. so powerful... and he sounded so sincere... people eating toilet paper and toothpaste????? water too contanimated to drink???? no guards or anything else... all the while locked up with murderers ,rapists and thieves... for a misdemeanor!
the heroism of Larry was something to behold. seeing him fight through those waters to save his fellow man sent chills through my entire self.
I'm in Dallas ... and Afrian Americans in this country have always looked to N.O. for our culture.. the birth of HIP HOP.. our most talented musicians and performances... as witnessed by Kim's performance...(someone tryed to hook her on Coke when she was a teenager and make her a prostitute!!)
this should show what drugs have done to this generation. It would be idiotic to assume that we produced not ONE MLK... OR Malcolm.... no Thurgood Marshall... Drugs either took them away or the nurturing environment they needed to grow
we did have those types of leaders in this generation, but unlike any other race here, minorities included, we had powerful forces working AGAINST our progress.. the results of which are still evident today
some like to think the problems of AA are of their own making... this helps the person with such idiotic views feel better about themselves... and more empowered.
They choose to ignore what cointelpro and institutional racism has done to blacks... the family structure in the AA community was much stronger prior to cointelpro...AA neighborhoods were great places to live in prior to cointelpro.
in places where AA had the same education as european americans (places in the north mainly, like New York for instance) AA were MORE INTELLIGENT than european americans ,prior to cointelpro
but factions of our Government, mainly out of a fear induced hate, sought to do irreparable harm to it's own citizens . so while many in the other communities tell us , "get over it, it happened 40 years ago", that's pretty hard to do when you have to live with the fallout of the CIA's and FBI's illegal policies of decades past... (and some not so past considering the FBI's all out assault on Black Politicians nationwide)
I'm proud to be American
I'm proud to be of African descent... (i'm not black, im a reddish brown color similar to the ancient egyptians)
sorry for the rants... i'm just overcome with emotion right now
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i saw this doc last night and was absolutely blown away!
I'm too a street person... and to see the selflessness of Kim literally shook me to the core
I've watched many docs... none compare to the great in depth work of a requiem in four acts...
BUT THIS touched me in a more profund way. Watching this was somewhat surreal to me and i'm certain I'll never be the same again.
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I cant wait to get Kold Madina's album
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I want to see this, and the others as well. The entire tragedy with all of its aspects is something we should never stop learning about, lest it happens again.
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> another documentary HBO should air is "Dark Water
> Rising", the untold stories about the animal rescue
> mission in the aftermath of Katrina.
There was another doc that came out around that time called "Katrina's Animal Rescue", that ran on public television (I think, it's been awhile) that was excellent also. The toll on animals after Katrina was absolutely staggering, and those who went in afterward to help as many as they could was nothing short of heroic. In fact, the rescues are STILL ongoing, even to this very day! I think it's important we continue to highlight attention of the affected areas, people and animals that are still suffering, not just from the storm but from our government's utter failure of a response afterward.
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another documentary HBO should air is "Dark Water Rising", the untold stories about the animal rescue mission in the aftermath of Katrina.
I know many folks who went down there to rescue and save animals that were left behind while the feds and local gov't did nothing to help, heck they didn't even care about the humans left behind and stranded.
was told some pretty harrowing stories about what really happened down there and about those who took an oath to 'protect and serve' and did everything else but.
it's now going on 4 yrs and the place is still a mess except for New Orleans.
http://www.darkwaterrising.com/
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The day before Hurricane Katrina hit, 24-year-old Kimberly Rivers Roberts, a resident of New Orleans' 9th Ward, turned her new video camera on herself, declaring, "It's going to be a day to remember." With hardly any supplies and no way of leaving her hometown, Roberts taped her harrowing ordeal as Katrina raged and the levees failed. Directed and produced by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, TROUBLE THE WATER opens with this unforgettable home video footage, then follows Kimberly and her husband Scott on a two-year odyssey - from the devastation of the storm to their escape from the city, to resettlement in Memphis, to an eventual return to a decimated New Orleans - telling a story of transformation, heroism and love. A 2008 Academy Award® nominee for Best Documentary Feature. Premieres on HBO Thursday, April 23 at 8:30pm ET/PT.
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