![]() They had no idea where their grandson was and knew that Louisiana was being hit hard by the Hurricane. Meanwhile, Calvin’s grandparents in Georgia were worried sick. But they had no way to let Calvin’s family know what had happened. The good news was Gice and Calvin made it safely to Houston, Texas to stay with Gice’s family just as Katrina made landfall. When Calvin’s grandmother realized there wasn’t room for them both in the same van, she made arrangements for Calvin to leave with his preschool teacher, Mrs. It was a chaotic scene as hundreds of families were trying to make it to safety. In an example of that scenario, Calvin and his great-grandmother were separated as evacuation vans filled up leaving Louisiana. “There had been no way to keep track of who was getting on which bus.” “A lot of families got on separate buses assuming they were all going to the same place, but they weren’t,” said Brook Schaub, a Team Adam consultant who was helping find children after Katrina. After Hurricane Katrina, Team Adam was on the ground in Louisiana and Texas, searching for missing kids. The group is named for Adam Walsh, a six-year-old boy who went missing in 1984 and was later discovered deceased, prompting his father, John Walsh, to help establish NCMEC. A major force behind those resolutions were the members of NCMEC’s Team Adam, a group of retired police officer volunteers who are deployed in cases of critically missing children. In Calvin’s hometown of New Orleans, over 70% of the city was flooded by the end of Katrina’s eight-day tiradeĭuring the aftermath of Katrina, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) helped resolve 5,192 missing child cases of children displaced because of the storm. It’s estimated that over 1,800 perished in the storm and millions more were left homeless all across the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes to ever hit the United States.
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