From the bayou to the valley Former Ragin’ Cajun brings Southern are to Southern California

Stacey Arevalo Roundup Reporter

On Aug. 28, 2005, Christopher Morgan stood in front of his house with his younger sister as he watched an oak tree that was more than 50 feet tall fall straight through his house and two more fall in his backyard. The day began to get really windy and soon more trees down his street began to get snap in half by a storm.

This was the day Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana.

“I remember it like if it was yesterday,” Morgan said. “No houses were intact, everything was gone. It looked like a war zone.”

Morgan lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a city he said wasn’t affected directly by the flooding from the storm but was still left without power for about a week and a half.

The area where he lived was shaped like an oval with only one way to come in and one way to get out. “Huge oak trees” as Morgan said, lined up all the backs of the houses. Three of those oak trees were what fell through the house he lived in with his family.

“When the levees broke, that’s when it really became real,” Morgan said. “Seeing all the water on TV, seeing areas that I knew in New Orleans, places that I had been to completely covered with water on TV was unreal.”

Since the majority of Morgan’s family lived in New Orleans, where the storm hit the hardest, a big group came to live with him and his family.

“There were about 25 people in a three-bedroom house for about a month until they were able to find a stable place to stay at,” Morgan said. “Some of my family members really just got back on their feet just within the last two or three years.”

Morgan is currently living in “sunny California,” as he called it, where the daily sight of palm trees still doesn’t cease to amaze him. He moved to Woodland Hills four months ago to attend Pierce College.

Morgan is currently looking to major in business management and

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