Hurricane Katrina
Gypsy and her father, Rod, maintained a close relationship. Even Kristy, his father’s second wife, was kind to her. But soon, Gypsy’s relationship with the father and his family became distant when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Like a lot of people in New Orleans, the calamity displaced Dee Dee and Gypsy and forced them to move to an emergency special needs housing, and later to a house built for them in the Ozarks by Habitat for Humanity.
