DALLAS — Leaving her home city of New Orleans is still very difficult to put into words for Michelle Gibson . She left twenty years ago after Hurricane Katrina hit. She and her family are some of the thousands displaced by the tragedy that unfolded in Louisiana.

"I'm speaking as if I'm talking about a movie...but we actually lived it," said Gibson.

A proud New Orleanian and a pastor’s daughter, Gibson had just given birth to her son Nigel eight days before the storm hit. Her 6-year-old daughter was by her side as they made the difficult decision to leave.

“We were dragging our feet to leave, though,” she remembers. “We never thought we were never gonna come back home!” She felt like many New Orleanians felt at the moment: a reluctance to leave because of 'just another storm.'

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