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Picking up after Katrina disaster
Allouez native returns to his home after escaping the hurricane
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GOT OUT: Patt and John Ploen, and their two children, Hannah and Jack, evacuated from the New Orleans area prior to Hurricane Katrina making landfall. They stayed for a while in Allouez, where John was raised, with his father, Jerry. (Ploen family photo)
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By Heather Chrudimsky
Compass Correspondent
As millions watched Hurricane Katrina strengthen as it moved toward the Gulf Coast, the Ploen family was packing for evacuation as they have done whenever a hurricane threatened New Orleans.
"We have evacuated so many times in the past that we didn't think anything of it," said John Ploen, a native of Allouez and a graduate of Resurrection School, Abbot Pennings High School and St. Norbert College.
John, his wife, Patt, their 10-year-old daughter Hannah and 7-year-old Jack, had no idea that this time was different, and that their home in Slidell, La., on the north shore of Lake
Pontchartrain, would sustain 190 mile per hour wind gusts and a 26-foot storm surge.
Louisiana gets lots of hurricane warnings, John said, adding that he is thankful that his family was able to evacuate.
The Ploens went to the home of their neighbor's parents in Mississippi and waited for the storm to pass.
"We didn't realize what was about to happen," John said. "All I packed was two pairs of shorts, two shirts and a pair of flip flops." Full story ...
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