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Fifty-eight days in the Cajundome shelter

2008

Format:	Book
Author:	Dobie, Ann B.
Title:	Fifty-eight days in the Cajundome shelter / Ann B. Dobie.
Publisher, Date:	Gretna, Louisiana : Pelican Publishing Company, 2008.
Description:	160 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects:	Hurricane Katrina, 2005. Hurricane Rita, 2005. Hurricanes -- Louisiana -- Lafayette. Disaster relief -- Louisiana -- Lafayette. Disaster victims -- Louisiana -- Lafayette. Emergency management -- Louisiana -- Lafayette. Family services -- Louisiana -- Lafayette. Lafayette (La.) -- Social conditions.
Notes:	Includes index.
Contents:	The fifty-eight days : an overview -- The story of a family of eight : rescue, relief, and relocation -- Opening the doors -- A reporter's notebook -- The rescue stories -- Making a community -- Spaces and places -- A reporter's notebook -- The relief stories -- The diaspora -- A reporter's notebook -- The relocation stories -- Acadiana regroups -- A reporter's notebook.
LCCN:	2008022069
ISBN:	9781589805798 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1589805798 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other Number:	212847872
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The Cajundome, a sports and entertainment arena in Lafayette, 140 miles from New Orleans, served for 58 days as a megashelter for 18,000 Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita evacuees. Dobie, an English professor at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, offers an intimate look at the evacuees and at the staff of the Cajundome, American Red Cross, FEMA, and local churches and organizations, including Bubba crews of locals providing food as they collectively coped with the aftermath of two hurricanes. Dobie recounts stories of the noble and the base in human reactions to hardship and struggle, as dome staff and relief organizations strove to provide basics of cots and medical care, and distraction for the children. Dobie highlights impromptu family formations as she examines the factors that cause some people to take charge and lead in desperate times and others to sink to predation. Dobie also explores the social dynamics of a mixture of mostly urban black poor from New Orleans and mostly white rural poor from southwestern Louisiana.--Bush, Vanessa Copyright 2008 Booklist

Summary

After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged much of the Louisiana coastline, the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana, was opened as a temporary emergency shelter for a few hundred refugees. However, newly homeless men, women, and children continued to arrive each day in need of food, clothing, and medical attention. This is the struggle of the volunteers and workers at the Cajundome who cared for more than 18,000 evacuees in the devastating aftermath of the hurricanes.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	p. 9
Part I	Coping with Crises
Chapter 1	The Fifty-Eight Days: An Overview	p. 17
Chapter 2	The Story of a Family of Eight: Rescue, Relief, and Relocation	p. 25
Part II	The Rescue Phase
Chapter 3	Opening the Doors	p. 31
Chapter 4	A Reporter's Notebook	p. 55
Chapter 5	The Rescue Stories	p. 61
Part III	The Relief Phase
Chapter 6	Making a Community	p. 75
Chapter 7	Spaces and Places	p. 95
Chapter 8	A Reporter's Notebook	p. 99
Chapter 9	The Relief Stories	p. 113
Part IV	The Relocation Phase
Chapter 10	The Diaspora	p. 123
Chapter 11	A Reporter's Notebook	p. 131
Chapter 12	The Relocation Stories	p. 135
Part V	The Recovery Phase
Chapter 13	Acadiana Regroups	p. 149
Chapter 14	A Reporter's Notebook	p. 155
	Index	p. 157

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