I talked with Mitchell, his wife Liberty and their son Hank. Mitchell was planning on attending the University of New Orleans this fall. He found out SCAD was helping Katrina victims by googling, "free tuition, art school, katrina." They had some very supportive comments about living in the south.

I spoke with Liberty about the condition of their house and the contents. I asked her about items they took with them during the evacuation, she mentioned photos, family heirlooms, and important papers. In the rush she didn't feel she could think straight, and she also felt like the more seriously she prepared, the more serious the storm would be.

One poignant memory for the family was seeing a truck with flashing lights coming up the street as they were leaving the city. They first thought it was an evacuation truck for the neighborhood children who were playing in the street. But they passed closer by and realized it was an ice cream truck.