| Article: | 'I had to get out,' says Katrina survivor here On the last leg of a 3,000 mile, four-day bus ride to Seattle from Baton Rouge, Louis. Washington Thomas marveled at the unfamiliar mountain passes and Pacific Northwest landscapes along the way. Most of the time, though, she contemplated how she would start over in Seattle after losing nearly everything when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans last August and put her home in the Lower Ninth Ward under water. |