NEED TO KNOW

Stacey Bruno, her husband and their two children evacuated their home in New Orleans a day before Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and traveled by car to her parents' place in Minneapolis

After hearing about their story, Greg Lawrence, a local businessman, offered the family a home to stay in rent-free for a year

The Bruno family has since returned to New Orleans and Stacey and her husband Harold have welcomed two more kids

Stacey Bruno still remembers the very long drive from New Orleans to Minneapolis that she and her family undertook 20 years ago as they were fleeing the city one day before Hurricane Katrina struck .

“We didn't know if we were gonna be coming back, but we didn't bring much at all," Stacey, 46, tells PEOPLE, which first covered the family’s ordeal in Septemb

See Full Page