ABSTRACT
Gerald McCleery, consultant and former New York State-licensed psychologist, offers an insight into his experiences as part of the response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, in this chapter. Katrina was an extremely destructive Category 5 hurricane that wrought extreme damage from Florida to Texas. We are given an insight into the extreme commitment of the volunteer responders to Katrina through McCleery’s experience, having flown and then driven almost 200 miles in order to get to where the help with disaster phone work was needed. The reader gets a deep insight into situations of those survivors placing phone calls seeking aid post-Katrina, and these are contextualized by McCleery’s own thoughts, feelings, actions and lessons learned from the experience.
