Hurricane Survivor Charmaine Neville Saw Alligator Attacks and Worse After Katrina — Still, the City Endured

Charmaine Neville still feels sick whenever a storm enters the Gulf of Mexico.

“I just panic, the anxiety comes,” Neville says. “It’s never going to go away, because the horrible things that I saw and lived through are something that won’t go away.”

Hurricane Katrina killed 1,392 people. Neville saw some of the victims firsthand as she struggled to escape her flooded neighborhood when the storm hit on Aug. 29, 2005…

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