Some say home is where the heart is, but after Katrina's wrath destroyed one family's home, its heart belongs to two cities.

After being displaced by the flood waters, Sandra Catchings and Brad Bradford made their way to Staunton.

On the fifth anniversary of Katrina's landfall, the couple spent time remembering their flight from danger and their struggle to start again.

Having been born and raised in New Orleans, Catchings and her husband were used to packing their car and clearing out of the city.

"Where we lived in New Orleans, we evacuated all the time in the summer," recalls Catchings.

"Sometimes two, three, four times a year," agrees Bradford.

They usually left two days before hurricanes, but the unexpected turn Katrina took left them scrambling to leave, though they were still ahead of much of the city.

"Normally, we're so ahead of the game, and it was our late reaction and me feeling like we're so unsuspecting this time. I thought, this is it," says Catchings.

The couple, both dentists, had the foresight to grab their licenses and diplomas. Even then, they didn't expect the storm to be as bad as it was.

"We packed three days worth of clothes and a boatload of toys for [our son William] to play with," says Bradford.

The family helplessly watched the news about New Orleans from a hotel room in Jackson, Mississippi and then farther north in Illinois. Though they were displaced for months, they were determined to go back.

"I felt like, 'That's my home. I going to rebuild it, and I'm not leaving if you drag me by my hair,'" remembers Catchings.

They eventually did go home and found their dentistry practice intact. For a while, they wondered how they would survive, thinking no one would want to go to the dentist when they had lost everything.

However, they were shocked to find their waiting room was often full. Tears came to Bradford's eyes as he recalled the scene.

He begins, "We had patients come in and they would sit [there."

"They'd sit in the waiting room just because it was normal. We had walls and paint," finishes Catchings.

As they were rebuilding the practice, the family soon realized they had a bigger problem than getting their life back to normal.

With every building in the city either rotting or under construction, the pollution was making their son William severely ill.

At three, the doctors had William on eight different medications, and he was still getting sicker. The last straw for Catchings was when a doctor recommended William take a low-grade antibiotic for the next ten years.

"And, I just said, 'I love New Orleans, but I love my family more,'" adds Catchings.

The family decided to pick up and move to Staunton, building a practice and a life from scratch.

They say they chose Staunton because of the mountains, which break apart storms before they hit the city, a telling insight into the mind of a Katrina victim, who always watch the weather.

However, if asked where their heart is, Catchings and Bradford will quickly reply, though New Orleans is where they're from, the Valley is becoming home.