Hurricane Journal by Samantha Perez

On the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore in Louisiana, 17-year-old Samantha Perez began writing about it for The Tattoo. In a series of remarkable journal entries, she's given Tattoo readers a candid, heartbreaking look into her life as an evacuee from hard-hit St. Bernard Parish, a town outside of New Orleans that was clobbered by the storm. Check out her ongoing series at: http://www.readthetattoo.com.