WILSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WTVF) — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a Wilson County pastor is using her family's traumatic experience with the storm to help Middle Tennessee communities prepare for future disasters.

Many of those who fled Katrina ended up in Middle Tennessee. Regina Girten still remembers the phone call from 20 years ago when Hurricane Katrina was approaching Louisiana.

"My parents had just dropped me off at college," Girten said.

As the hurricane approached, her mother packed to evacuate from New Orleans. At school in Oklahoma, Girten received a call from her mom asking what she wanted her to grab from the house before the storm hit.

"I knew that it was gonna be a big deal," Girten said.

"I was watching the news on a loop looking for informatio

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