This is the part of this site I least like. I I don’t like talking about myself as this site is not about me. It has always been about helping the people affected by what became the worst American natural disaster in our country's history. Many of the emails I have received have asked me about who I am and therefore, I will take a couple paragraphs here to give you a little history about me. First of all, my involvement in what I call the Katrina experience has been a remarkable one with many twists and ironic turns of fate. Hopefully one day, I’ll be able to sit down and write my experiences down in regards to Hurricane Katrina and share them with you all. My name is Gary S.. I’m from Los Angeles, California where over the last 14 years I was a web developer and computer IT. Things were great in my life prior to August 29, 2005. In early August, I decided I was going to move to Singapore and take a job where I had once worked in 2002. I was going to leave the second week in September of 2005. In early June about the time I become homeless, Coldplay (an English band) released their new CD called “X&Y”. I remember listening to this CD and loving the music but more importantly the lyrics. There was a song on their CD called “Fix You”. It was such a simple poignant song and I related to it on more than a personal level. When Katrina battered and devastated the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, I wanted so much to help all these innocent victims and do something. I created the Katrina video within 48 hours and was given a place to stay in Big Bear California by an incredibly giving and loving friend, Debra Stone. She believed in what I was doing and has always been supportive in my efforts to help survivors/victims of Hurricane Katrina. Over the next five weeks, I answered hundreds of emails and requests related to the Katrina video. In early September, I got a call from a lawyer in Washington D.C. who himself was a victim of a hurricane a couple years prior. His experience uncovered a lot of fraud and corruption from Insurance companies, F.E.M.A. and other government agencies in relationship to flood victims. He asked me to do a special video which was then played before congress on the senate floor. I received requests from congress and senate to use this little video I created to draw attention on a larger scaled to address the problems flood victims face. I was then asked to come here and help others not be taken advantage of by insurance companies. Over the last 6 months, I have been in Louisiana helping people in whatever ways I could. Some days it was helping people with insurance and FEMA claims and others it was chopping down trees and hauling debris from homeowners damaged homes and backyards. All in all my experience here has been a rewarding one. I’m not sure what is next for me in my life, but I am open to all possibilities and will continue to help others in whatever way God wants me to. I just want to finally say that all the emails I have received have given me the strength to endure the challenges of the last 7 months so I can continue helping the people of the Gulf Coast. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

One (1) love, Gary (LaLa) S.

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