Family Reunited in Tucson after Hurricane Katrina
Published: October 11, 2005
Picola Brown hugged her daughter Desera Lewis, and almost six weeks of emotion was released through her arms. Holding each other tightly, both laughed and sighed and said they missed one another.
Flash back to the onset of Hurricane Katrina.
Because of a foot injury, Picola, the mother, had to allow her 16-year-old daughter Desera to flee with her older sister.
Desera ended up in Baton Rouge with family. Picola, rather than walk through disgusting waters and risk infection, waited to ride with military troops out of New Orleans.
Picola arrived in Tucson in early September. She was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center where her foot was allowed to heal.
Not long after she was out of the hospital, volunteers in Tucson and a Methodist church in Louisiana coordinated their efforts and got Deserea on a flight to the Old Pueblo.
“Now I can relax. I can rest knowing she’s safe, and I thank Tucson for all they did for me,” said Picola Brown.
Both plan to look for work in Tucson, and Desera will go back to school as well. They don’t plan to ever return to New Orleans.
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