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1 Dead In The Attic Summary

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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina Over the summer, I read the book called 1 Dead in the Attic. The book was about the author Chris Rose personal story about Hurricane Katrina. He described what he did during the hurricane considering he was a newspaper writer. The book consist of many short stories that Chris Ross wrote about Hurricane Katrina and the months afterward including the rebuilding process. I think this book was good because he described his personal story about Katrina. I am going to tell you about my personal story with Hurricane Katrina. When Hurricane Katrina was coming toward Louisiana, my family decided to evacuate to Texas during Hurricane Katrina. After a few weeks, my family came back to Metairie and moved in to my mom's friend house because our house had eight inches of water inside. We started right away cleaning up the messed and getting anything we needed. After a few days we moved out of my mom's friend house and into my grandmother's house with the rest of my extended family on my mom's side. Eventually, we recovered from the flood and moved back into our house. …show more content…

When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating, and it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour–and stretched some 400 miles across. Chris Rose did a great job writing about the process of Hurricane Katrina. Chris Rose described the process in great details. When he talked about the houses under water and the writing on the houses, you could imagine the images in your head. Chris Rose got the name for this book from one of his short stories. Chris Rose described when he was passing houses in the quarters, one of the houses on the outside said 1 dead in attic, which means that there was one person dead in the attic of that

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