Official Katrina Memorial Thread - O-T Lounge

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TulaneUVA Baton Rouge Member since Jun 2005 9462 posts Online	Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:13 p.m.) Sure, everyone and their mom is putting something Katrina related in their facebook statuses...as if they were actually IN New Orleans or Delta Region and was DIRECTLY affected by the hurricane and not just inconvenienced. Regardless, what is your most vivid memory good or bad? What has stuck in your mind even though it is now four years later?
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SuperSaint (ten-uh-kee) Member since Sep 2007 37865 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:15 p.m. to TulaneUVA) I still reference everything "Before the storm" or "after the storm"
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Dorothy Munchkinland Member since Oct 2008 5518 posts Online	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:16 p.m. to TulaneUVA) The sound of the helicopters constantly flying over BR going to the hospitals/Fieldhouse/Assembly Center for the next week.
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PJ250R The Rock Member since Sep 2006 1228 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:17 p.m. to TulaneUVA) I had a friend from the NE call me up and ask if I was ok?? I said yes... family is fine and just enjoying some family time (before I knew part of NOLA was underwater... electricity was out) He said... "ok good... they just had a report up here that said the whole state of Louisiana is underwater.... just making sure." - A friend of mine from NOLA stayed with me for 2 weeks in my small college apartment... we caught up and played poker every night with friends... good times. _ ETA: Relief work in Mississippi after the storm...craziest thing I have ever seen... I will post some pics. what the ground looked like everywhere...... it literally was a dead zone... the salt water and mud killed everything green. i bet you see the freezer in the tree first....when i look at the picture I know that that house belongs 2 blocks away... Bridge in Bay St. Louis This really was a sweet setup with this boat in the water... then his boat was in his yard. We saw a lot of yachts just sitting on the hwy going down Also, did some relief work in the PMAC the night of...that was some crazy stuff, I was in college and had to step up and I really think I did some growing up that night. This post was edited on 8/29 at 1:47 p.m.
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garrettpz71 LSU Member since Sep 2008 4038 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:21 p.m. to TulaneUVA) my life's pretty much normal, all of my friend's, which was a lot, who's houses flooded are rebuilt and way nicer now and all seem pretty happy.
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Tino Denham Springs Member since Dec 2004 30156 posts Online	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:21 p.m. to TulaneUVA) The bank I made the month after it.
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TulaneUVA Baton Rouge Member since Jun 2005 9462 posts Online	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:21 p.m. to SuperSaint) I'll also contribute: I was in going into my sophomore year at Tulane and was an RA of an upperclass dorm. It was freshman move-in day and we were told to that everyone should leave and get out. We had to tell all of our residents that they should just leave their things in their rooms and get out of the city as soon as possible. I didn't think too much of it...after all, there have been hurricanes before and nothing ever came of it. I picked up my friend who was flying in from Denver and we boogied it to Baton Rouge to stay with a friend. The middle of the night was really noisy, but not anything out of the ordinary IMO. Just another 'bad storm'. I woke up in the morning in absolute shock at what I was seeing on the television. Leap forward a couple months: I returned to New Orleans in the middle of November that year to help my friend and his family move their belongings from their uptown home to their storage. They needed to do some renovations and repairs. Seeing the national guard with machine guns and humvees patrolling the streets...once busy streets absolutely desolate...thousands of refrigerators in front of every house. Visible water lines several feet above ground level. I still remember all of that shite like it was yesterday.
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LSUSoulja08 Land of Champions Member since Oct 2007 4969 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:22 p.m. to TulaneUVA) I was in Monroe, and we even got some nasty weather as she progressed north. We had some family from NOLA come and stay with us for like 6 months.
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Elleshoe The PMAC Member since Jun 2004 70166 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:24 p.m. to TulaneUVA) quote: thousands of refrigerators in front of every house. damn, we only have one refrigerator.
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STBTigerr Mandeville/New Orleans Member since Jan 2007 2930 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:24 p.m. to TulaneUVA) Going back to my parents' house about two weeks after, I was trying to wedge a door open and the window busted sending a piece of glass into my wrist. I was bleeding like a sonofabitch with nowhere to really go, plus the truck was about 8 houses down because it was as close as we could get to the house. Finally found some national guard and they sent me to the ExxonMobil refinery where they had some volunteers that stitched me up, 4 stitches where there should have been about 8 or 10. Shitty day. This post was edited on 8/29 at 1:31 p.m.
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CaptainTree Louisiana Member since Aug 2009 147 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:28 p.m. to PJ250R) Katrina hit on Monday. The Friday before the news was still leaning towards it not coming to Louisiana. By Saturday they were saying it will likely hit.. Taste of Tiger tailgating was canceled and I remember my friend called and asked me why they were canceling it because he thought the storm was not coming. That Sunday I had a fantasy football draft which had to be moved to Sunday from Saturday because one of the guys had to go down to grand isle to check on his camp Saturday evening. When I was going to the draft the traffic was horrible because of everyone leaving out of the coastal parishes. After the storm we watched everything unfold in New Orleans TV (we didnt have power for 2 days but used a generator). The rumors that started spreading was unbelievable.
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tigafan4life a house Member since Dec 2006 23712 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:30 p.m. to TulaneUVA) My sister was due for a c-section on the 30th and she was just all worried that she wouldnt have a hospital to go to and she was also worried that her husband was gonna miss the birth (he was in pilot training for the navy). And a funny thing I remember that lightened the mood for all of us was that she was just laying in bed and she said Katrina, that bitch...and she NEVER curses.
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SuperSaint (ten-uh-kee) Member since Sep 2007 37865 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:31 p.m. to TulaneUVA) I hate Katrina, I still don't have my wardrobe back to par. Spending 3 weeks with out power is shitty, but not having running water is really a bitch.
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Bill OReilly ahh, the good ole days Member since Oct 2005 13431 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:32 p.m. to TulaneUVA) Watching Geraldo in Southgate towers...for some reason there was only one outlet that worked in his apartment because of the power outage...we plugged a TV and a lamp in
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lsu31always Team 31 Member since Jan 2008 38692 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:32 p.m. to SuperSaint) quote: I hate Katrina, You hate alot of things.
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tigafan4life a house Member since Dec 2006 23712 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:33 p.m. to tigafan4life) Another memory I have is this one old DC-3 plane picking up people at the BR airport. I worked for a charter company out there and the site of these people was just sad.
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CaptainTree Louisiana Member since Aug 2009 147 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:33 p.m. to SuperSaint) I remember someone said that the "ganstas" took over New Orleans and that there have to be a war in order for order to be restored..LOL
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mgautrea Clemmons, NC Member since Dec 2007 1181 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:35 p.m. to TulaneUVA) quote: Regardless, what is your most vivid memory good or bad? Taking two weeks to find my grandmother in a hospital in San Antonio after she was evacuated from Lindy BoggsHospital.
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CaptainTree Louisiana Member since Aug 2009 147 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:36 p.m. to mgautrea) This post was edited on 8/29 at 1:37 p.m.
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SuperSaint (ten-uh-kee) Member since Sep 2007 37865 posts	re: Official Katrina Memorial Thread (Posted on 8/29/09 at 1:36 p.m. to mgautrea) quote: Lindy BoggsHospital. What are they going to do with that place, its still an empty eyesore in mid city.
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