Family separated by Katrina reunited at Detroit Metro Airport
Published: September 15, 2005
Tyrielle Smith hugged her mom first.
Next came her little sister Johneisha.
The 11-year-old was greeted with the embraces when she got off her plane at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Wednesday evening.
But this wasn’t your average airport reunion.
Tyrielle and her family had been separated for 3 1/2 weeks by Hurricane Katrina.
“I can finally sleep,” said Tyrielle’s mother, Lakeisha Smith Adams. “I’ve got all my kids with me.”
Besides Tyrielle’s mother and 5-year-old Johneisha, her 10-year-old sister Tyrienisha, 8-year-old brother Eric and stepfather Sterling Adams greeted her at the airport.
The family now is staying at the Best Western Sterling Inn in Sterling Heights.
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Smith Adams said Tyrielle had been separated from the family in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath and was with her maternal grandmother in a shelter in Pine Bluff, Ark. She said she always knew her daughter was safe but worried about just where she was.
“I was stressed and depressed but I was prayerful,” she said. “I knew everything was going to be all right.”
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