re: What was Katrina like?

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The New York firefighters were some of the hardest working volunteers on the scene and made a great impression on local citizens, he said.

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One of my surreal moments of the aftermath is related to New York - after the initial crisis (and I mean the period covering the weekend before the storm until the following Monday, after the Convention Center and Dome had been evacuated) - I was afforded a rotation of 10 days on, 4 days off for some time, and I was at Carville for most of September and October. In November, we moved back into New Orleans to relieve guardsmen from other states. On one of my return trips from home, I was on the Bonnet Carré spillway (I-10), eastbound, just outside of Kenner and I saw what appeared to be a felony stop on the side of the road. The officers and vehicles were all marked, "New York State Police".

Surreal is the only way I can describe it.