The water reached the transformer sitting on a pole above their rental home, but the house remained intact. They left their three dogs behind, and most of their personal possessions. The ashes of Chanel's mother had to be left behind along with everything else when they evacuated to Philadelphia prior to the storm.
Chanel's mother had died four months earlier. Their son, Dutch, was born two weeks before the storm. Todd Curtis White, Jr., and his wife Chanel Alaniz lived in the white house. So, the only thing that we knew to do was write on the home.'īefore Katrina struck, there were five homes on the property at 104 North Central Avenue in Waveland, Mississippi. We still hadn't had time to communicate with everybody. And you know, we still hadn't talked to everybody that we knew. But at about the two-month mark, we went back. Ten years later Chanel Alaniz explained, 'It took us about three months to get back to Mississippi, me and my son and my husband at the time. Closest gay meeting places to Waveland Jackson Hilton Lobby Bar Tougaloo Celebrations will always be greater with good friends so, if you choose to visit Jackson Hilton Lobby Bar, attempt seem well clothed yet not too formal, deciding on clothes that cause you to feel secure and don't prevent you from expressing yourself or transferring. At the time this photo was taken, all that was known to passersby was that Todd and Chanel were looking for a mother's ashes, Octoa stark reminder of the kind of emotional losses suffered by residents.
