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Charmaine Neville, a member of one of New Orleans' most celebrated musical families, was trapped in New Orleans like numerous others in Katrina's wake in 2005

She says she could not afford to evacuate the city when warnings were issued ahead of the storm but did her best, in the aftermath, to help her neighbors

In the 20 years since the deadly storm, Neville has restore her home in the 9th Ward and continues to perform

Charmaine Neville feels ill every time she learns a storm is in the Gulf of Mexico.

"I just panic, the anxiety comes," Neville says. "It's never going to go away, because the horrible things that I saw and lived through are something that won't go away."

Hurricane Katrina killed 1,392 people . Neville encountered the bodies of some of those victims as sh

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