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re: What was Katrina like?
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:08 pm to DownSouthCrawfish
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:08 pm to DownSouthCrawfish
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Powerful propaganda hit piece on Katrina
FIFY
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Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:46 pm to udtiger
Did U turns on I-10 until I realized river road was a better choice...
I flew in from Iraq and beat most of FEMA. the smell will never leave me. It was worse than Iraq and that is not hyperbole.
I flew in from Iraq and beat most of FEMA. the smell will never leave me. It was worse than Iraq and that is not hyperbole.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:54 pm to NWarty
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Finding an abandoned Pug a month after the storm, alive on the top of the family's kitchen refrigerator. The front door was already marked but we checked each one again. Happiest little bastard I ever saw when we got him back to the school and got him cleaned up.
This had to give you such a great feeling while dealing with all of the death and destruction.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:56 pm to DownSouthCrawfish
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Powerful documentary on Katrina (Graphic)
Dude seriously?
frick Spike Lee and frick that documentary.
Biggest pile of slanted propagadist pandering horse shite I've ever seen in my life.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:59 pm to lsufan112001
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LINK I saw this one live. Quite humbling.
Holy shite that was heartbreaking to watch
Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:00 pm to xxKylexx
Almost all my family in the area moved to Houston
Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:00 pm to haricot rouge
I've been trying to find news footage taken from a helicopter immediately after the storm. It flew over New Orleans, Jefferson Parish, and the west bank and announced what neighborhoods flooded, etc.
Anyone remember that and might know where I could find that?
Anyone remember that and might know where I could find that?
Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:03 pm to lsufan112001
quote:That might have been the most heartbreaking thing i've seen in my entire life
LINK
I saw this one live. Quite humbling.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:05 pm to xxKylexx
I don't know how I forgot to mention this in my origional post in this thread. The night before my mom and I went to the Texaco and there was an old woman sitting in the store crying and her kids were trying to get her to get back in the car. They had been driving for over 22 hours to get from NOLA to Tallulah La (normally a 4 hour drive). They had a hotel room reserved in Iowa and the old woman refused to go. IDK how but my mom recognized the old woman and she had gone to high school with her daughter in the 70s. We told them we had a camp on Lake Bruin and it was only 30 minutes away and they were welcome to stay but there was no food. They said they had 2 days worth of food that they had with them so we let them stay and they called some other ppl. I think we had between 20 and 30 ppl staying at our lake camp. The moms and kids ended up staying there until Christmas break because they had nowhere to go to school or a house to go back to in NOLA.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:24 pm to WeeWee
I sold my house and moved out of mid-city 12 days before Katrina hit. Watching my hometown flooding and burning didn't seem real. Waiting to hear from friends and family was brutal. I can't imagine what people went thru in NOLA.
I was living in fort lauderdale, so Katrina fricked us up, too. Trees down and lost power for a week or so.
I was living in fort lauderdale, so Katrina fricked us up, too. Trees down and lost power for a week or so.
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Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:25 pm to theunknownknight
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Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:33 pm to haricot rouge
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Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:39 pm to xxKylexx
It was a bitch.
ETA: Also, Katrina indirectly killed my grandfather. He lived in Lakeview and lost the home he had lived in for 50 years along with his two cats. He moved into a cramped apartment that he hated. The stress lead to heart issues and he died 16 months after the storm. He was 90.
ETA: Also, Katrina indirectly killed my grandfather. He lived in Lakeview and lost the home he had lived in for 50 years along with his two cats. He moved into a cramped apartment that he hated. The stress lead to heart issues and he died 16 months after the storm. He was 90.
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Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:45 pm to xxKylexx
I was in br at LSU. We didn't lose power until Rita hit. Gustav was much worse as far as br was concerned. But that semester was pretty easy with a lot of students coming from uuniversities in Nola. The teachers were pretty slack on turning in late assignments and what not. All my roommates were from Nola and at one point we had 12 people and 5 dogs living at our house. That's what sucked the most. But we weren't going to turn away friends and family members.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:47 pm to gingerkittie
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I have often wondered about others who were really there and what they went thru. I'm talking about people like the OP, my fiance and others in their positions. Most of them do not like to talk about it and I can understand that. I wish them all the best and hope that have lots of love and support in life.
My brother and I were both at the Convention Center and the Dome. He's NOPD and I was with his team for medical support. I still have those images vividly burned into my memory. There were a lot of normal people doing extraordinary things but the underbelly of my city was out in full effect. My most vivid memory was riding down Canal St. as soon as the water went down. One of the most surreal moments of my life.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:50 pm to gingerkittie
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gingerkittie
Such a great post but sad read.
I'm humbled and thank you that you chose to share that with us and I'm sorry to hear about your late fiance as it sounds like he was a good dude.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 5:16 pm to xxKylexx
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What was Katrina like?
wet
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Posted on 4/19/15 at 5:25 pm to xxKylexx
Thanks to all of you for sharing these stories. You guys have balls of steel and are resilient as frick. I had no idea the extent of the physical and personal damage. Katrina was just a story on the news for a few days for me, I am ashamed to admit. These pages have been heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. Much respect to all of you.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 5:29 pm to DeathValley85
Wow that video has me choked up. And I read in the comments that the man recently died of lung cancer. Mother nature is a heartless bitch sometimes.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 5:33 pm to lsufan112001
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I saw this one live. Quite humbling.
Was that on the coast...?
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