Kathy Pardue returned Friday from Memphis, where she and her 12-year-old granddaughter had evacuated, to find their rental home on Slidell’s Camellia Drive had flooded when Hurricane Ida pushed nearby Bayou Bonfouca over its banks.

“I was in shock, I was really sad,” Pardue said Monday as she stood on her porch, surveying the pile of soaked furniture and other belongings that she and a friend, April Spring, had spent hours hauling out. Her granddaughter was having a harder time with the loss of her things, she said.

Pardue, who had been taking care of a sick relative out of state during Katrina, said she wasn’t prepared for the scale of destruction and had just grabbed important paperwork and a few clothes before they fled……..

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