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Eddie and Denise Nelson, Hurricane Katrina evacuee family living in Texas diaspora.

New Orleans Hurricane Katrina evacuee Eddie Nelson helps carry a couch down a ramp from a moving van into his family's new apartment in the Sharpstown apartment complex in southwest Houston, Texas (he and his wife have six children and she is 6 months pregnant with their 7th) on September 10, 2005, 13 days after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast. Sixteen members of Nelson's family members moved out of the Reliant Center today, where they were living after being relocated from the Superdome following their voluntary evacuation before the storm. A Houstonian and her family and friends helped place the family in three FEMA-subsidized apartments which they fully equipped with furniture, clothes and food. The C&M Moving & Storage Company of Houston donated the moving van and labor. . A documentary project, part of which was published by The New York Times, about Eddie and Denise Nelson and their family, a New Orleans African-American family who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina and became part of the diaspora living in Texas. A documentary project, part of which was published by The New York Times, about Eddie and Denise Nelson and their family, a New Orleans African-American family who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina and became part of the diaspora living in Texas.

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New Orleans Hurricane Katrina evacuee Eddie Nelson helps carry a couch down a ramp from a moving van into his family's new apartment in the Sharpstown apartment complex in southwest Houston, Texas (he and his wife have six children and she is 6 months pregnant with their 7th) on September 10, 2005, 13 days after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast. Sixteen members of Nelson's family members moved out of the Reliant Center today, where they were living after being relocated from the Superdome following their voluntary evacuation before the storm. A Houstonian and her family and friends helped place the family in three FEMA-subsidized apartments which they fully equipped with furniture, clothes and food. The C&M Moving & Storage Company of Houston donated the moving van and labor. . A documentary project, part of which was published by The New York Times, about Eddie and Denise Nelson and their family, a New Orleans African-American family who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina and became part of the diaspora living in Texas. A documentary project, part of which was published by The New York Times, about Eddie and Denise Nelson and their family, a New Orleans African-American family who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina and became part of the diaspora living in Texas.