Hurricane Katrina | Katrina Babies with Filmmaker Edward Buckles Jr. | 5

Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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As Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans, 13-year-old Edward Buckles, Jr. piled into a car with his family and evacuated. They drove for hours on clogged roads, and slept on a shelter floor that night. When Edward woke up the next morning and saw news reports of his city under water, he began to realize that the life he had known was gone. Today, Edward joins Host Cassie De Pecol to discuss his HBO documentary, Katrina Babies, which looks at the toll the hurricane took on the youth of New Orleans.

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0:00.0	From Wondry, I'm Cassie De Peckle, and this is against the odds.
0:22.0	Over the last four episodes, we've told the story of how her King Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005.
0:29.0	We heard what happened to the grown-ups, but what about the kids?
0:33.0	That's what filmmaker Edward Buckle's Jr. wondered.
0:36.0	He was just 13 when Katrina turned his life upside down, forcing his family to evacuate their home for months.
0:43.0	When he returned, the life he had known was gone.
0:46.0	Edward's HBO original documentary, Katrina Babies, takes a look at the lasting impact the hurricane had on New Orleans youth.
0:55.0	Edward Buckle's Jr. welcomed two against the odds.
0:58.0	Thank you so much for having me. I'm super happy to be here.
1:01.0	Let's go back to life in New Orleans when you were a kid.
1:04.0	Hurricane season came every year, and you were no stranger to storms.
1:08.0	Before Katrina, what was it like when a hurricane approached?
1:11.0	You know, honestly, every hurricane season, children who were in grade school and our high school, we got excited during the hurricane season.
1:21.0	Not because we thought a hurricane was coming, but just because we thought it was a great opportunity for us to skip out of school and stay home.
1:30.0	Every now and then, my family and I, we would drive up to a nearby town and see family members who live in those towns.
1:39.0	It was always kind of like a fun time for us because we always felt like we had nothing to worry about because it always seemed like every hurricane season was just filled with false alarm.
1:49.0	So we didn't really have to take hurricane season too seriously until 2005.
1:56.0	As Hurricane Katrina raced toward New Orleans, your family decided to evacuate.
2:01.0	Can you describe that moment of leaving your home with your family and what driving out of the city was like?
2:07.0	My family and I, my mother and my father and my two sisters, initially, we were going to ride off the start.
2:14.0	You know, we were going to stay home on that Saturday during the daytime.
2:19.0	We decided, okay, we're going to go to the store buy some candles, get some, you know, full canned goods and put all the frozen foods on the grill because we knew that it was a possibility that we may lose power.
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