Liz Roques won’t be following the Bulldog caravan to Jacksonville, Fla., over Fall Break as planned.

Instead, she is trading in her Georgia-Florida football ticket for boxes and duct tape to pack her belongings for when her family sells her childhood home in Harahan, La.

Harahan, which is just west of New Orleans, was one of the many towns ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Roques, a senior, said although her parents’ house received no flood or wind damage, the economic repercussions from the hurricane have forced her family to plan a move to Georgia.

Since this will be her first time in New Orleans since the hurricane, Roques said the trip will be bittersweet.

“All of my memories are tied to New Orleans,” she said.

And although she wants to see her native city firsthand, there will be a void left by friends who also have been forced to move, she said.

“That’s my home, and it’s wrecked,” Roques said. “It’s just devastating.”

On the bright side, Roques said she plans to work the VooDoo Music Festival and visit Baton Rouge, La., this weekend.

Like Roques, fellow New Orleans native Tori Kaufman hasn’t seen the remains of her hometown.

But she can’t visit this weekend because an airplane ticket is too expensive.

So Kaufman, a freshman who transferred to the University from Tulane after Hurricane Katrina, will be catching a ride to Atlanta to stay with a friend at Emory University.

Her home was flooded by a foot of water after the hurricane, damaging much of the first floor. As a result, Kaufman’s family relocated to Maryland.

Although Kaufman said she is excited about visiting with friends in New Orleans over Thanksgiving, she feels torn since her family has left.

“It’s sad to know that when I go (home), it’s not even in the same state,” she said.

Senior Michael Quinn will also have to wait until another break.

“There’s not really any place for me to stay,” said the New Orleans native.

He said his father has been repairing his family’s house, which received four feet of water, and about 10 hotels he owns.

Quinn said he hopes to make it to New Orleans before Thanksgiving but is bracing himself for what he will witness.

“I don’t think it’s going to be a good time,” he said.

Hurricane Katrina isn’t the only storm wrecking homes and fall break plans.

Since Hurricane Wilma made landfall early this week, sophomore Jean Bitz isn’t sure where she’ll be this weekend.

Bitz’s hometown of Coral Gables, Fla., just west of Miami, was put under an 8 p.m. curfew with few working lights, she said.

Bitz said a palm tree fell on her family’s home and other trees in their yard were lost, she said.

But more importantly, Bitz said she won’t be able to visit her mother, who is ill in the hospital.

After Hurricane Katrina, trees blocked the roads to the hospital, and now, after Hurricane Wilma, Bitz said she isn’t sure her flight to Miami will happen.

The Miami airport opens today, but there’s a chance flights will be canceled due to lowered demand, she said.

“I want to go home,” Bitz said. “I just don’t know if I can.”