Damage from Katrina September, 2005
Harper McCaughan Elementary, Long Beach, MS


Narration Provided by Anne Ladner, 4th grade teacher

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This is how you look when you see everything that you work for throughout your life GONE.
Everything Gone
This is the outside of my classroom; I climbed through the debris to look into my room.
Outside my Classroom
This is the inside of my fourth-grade classroom. The water was about 12 feet high.
Inside my Classroom
Our library
Library
This is a third grade classroom several doors down from my classroom.
3rd Grade Classroom
School Playground
Playground
This is a memorial deck in memory of a first grade student who was killed by an automobile.
Memorial deck
This is the upper grade playground.  That house was across the street before Katrina.
Upper Grade Playground
This is our music room.
Music Room
Another pic of our music room
More Music Room
This is the lower grade playground.
Lower Playground