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re: The Hurricane Katrina "Certain Death; Catastrophic Damage" warning.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:11 pm to AUbagman
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:11 pm to AUbagman
As a grown man, there's nothing that creeps me out much more than a tornado warning on the tv/radio and that automated computer voice that's used to read it, mixed with the sirens going off outside. Sends shivers down your spine and gives you that sick feeling in your gut, and you don't even know that a tornado will even form or be anywhere near you.
Can't even imagine receiving the warning in the OP, where it's already known that this disaster WILL come your way.
Can't even imagine receiving the warning in the OP, where it's already known that this disaster WILL come your way.
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Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:26 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Iraq was safer than NOLA on that date.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:32 pm to RazorBroncs
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nothing that creeps me out much more than a tornado warning
The problem with a tornado is that it happens so fast that you really don't have much time to react like they do in TV or in the movies. shite can happen so quick that it is either your time or it's not. Had one several years ago that demolished a fairly big barn. My son had been in that barn only 30 minutes before. One day, I will replace the barn. However, if I had lost my son, I am unable to comprehend the emotions I would have had over that. My kids and dog are pretty much all that's left. A parent should die before their children.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:37 pm to PairofDucks
I remember the eerie feeling of helplessness on Sunday night. New Orleans and Baton Rouge news stations combined and everyone was broadcasting from Baton Rouge studios. I get chills thinking about how chaotic that Sunday was. It's hard to believe it's been 11 years.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:38 pm to tgrbaitn08
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However, I agree that it was "right for the wrong reasons" as it effectively got the message across the Katrina was going to be both the most severe and the deadliest storm to hit the area in more than 35 years.
Wouldn't that make it "wrong for the right reasons"?
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:51 pm to Michael Stein
I was living on Napoleon Ave. when Camille hit and all we had in the area were a few broken tree branches.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:53 pm to Grim
I was posting right here on the OT and Rummy called it all the way in. Wish we could read the threads from those couple days leading up to it. I was reading and posting until my power went out. This place was a gold mine for information both before and after the storm. It was amazing to see people trickle back in over the next few weeks after.
I don't care to repeat.
I don't care to repeat.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:53 pm to Isabelle81
I still remember hearing the tornado coming through Tuscaloosa.
What a crazy arse day of 4/27/11
What a crazy arse day of 4/27/11
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:58 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
I'm glad everyone (for the most part) seem cool with this thread. I was worried I would rub people the wrong way, or upset someone. which obviously wouldn't be my intention.
For those of you in the LA, MS area who lived it, I appreciate you sharing your stories. First hand accounts are always fascinating.
For those of you in the LA, MS area who lived it, I appreciate you sharing your stories. First hand accounts are always fascinating.
This post was edited on 8/28/16 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 8/28/16 at 8:11 pm to Isabelle81
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I was living on Napoleon Ave. when Camille hit and all we had in the area were a few broken tree branches.
Betsy would be a better comparison to Katrina than Camille as far as New Orleans is concerned. If you look at the old photos of New Orleans flooding after Betsy, they're identical to the ones of Katrina. Mississippi took the worst of Camille along with Washington & St. Tammany Parishes.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 8:19 pm to MountainTiger
There were a number of deaths with Betsy as some folks ventured out of the bars during the eye of the storm thinking it was over and apparently too drunk to know better.
It made it up to Alexandria and I still remember it tearing a big mimosa tree out of our front yard.
It made it up to Alexandria and I still remember it tearing a big mimosa tree out of our front yard.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 8:20 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Emergency Alert System TV Message
Shite got real about 3pm on that Sunday when this came across tv.
Seeing top winds of 175 Sunday.
Shite got real about 3pm on that Sunday when this came across tv.
Seeing top winds of 175 Sunday.
This post was edited on 8/28/16 at 8:42 pm
Posted on 8/28/16 at 8:25 pm to MountainTiger
I was amazed that we had salt water come into my parent's house in Slidell during Katrina. Never would've thought that. We also had a group of three pine trees twisted around each other on the property, but the house was structurally fine. You could see where a tornado came right through the neighborhood and crossed in front of our house. Craziest thing I saw the entire time was when I was driving through 2ft deep mud in Indian Village. There was a C230 sitting on a branch 20ft up in an oak tree.
Much props to the cleanup crews over there, because there were trees stacked 10ft high in the street (pretty much most of the neighborhood), and they had the road open after two days.
I've always said that I might be in diapers and not even remember my name when I get older, but I'll never forget those smells. I smelled it in Laplace when it flooded a few years back and got choked up for a whole day.
Much props to the cleanup crews over there, because there were trees stacked 10ft high in the street (pretty much most of the neighborhood), and they had the road open after two days.
I've always said that I might be in diapers and not even remember my name when I get older, but I'll never forget those smells. I smelled it in Laplace when it flooded a few years back and got choked up for a whole day.
This post was edited on 8/28/16 at 8:26 pm
Posted on 8/28/16 at 8:34 pm to biggsc
[quote]Was the Hurricane Rita bulletin the same?[/quote
I had just bought and moved into a house in Katy. Wife and I ate lunch and watched weather reports. It was a solid Cat 5 with winds of 166. It was plotted to hit south of Katy and turn north going right over the top of us. It of course, turned east.
I had just bought and moved into a house in Katy. Wife and I ate lunch and watched weather reports. It was a solid Cat 5 with winds of 166. It was plotted to hit south of Katy and turn north going right over the top of us. It of course, turned east.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 8:35 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
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I'm glad everyone (for the most part) seem cool with this thread. I was worried I would rub people the wrong way, or upset someone. which obviously wouldn't be my intention.
Its a great post, but I came in with my fist up!!!!!
Flooding is a terrible thing, it just lingers and ruins everything, its very personal but the helpless feeling you have is humbling.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 8:36 pm to LaBR4
Posted on 8/28/16 at 8:39 pm to SuperSaint
To the illiterates with zero reading comprehension otherwise known here as TigerBait2008, SomethingLikeA and the always lovely SuperSaint:
Again, have someone who CAN actually read review what I posted in this thread. There was never any attempt by me for anything like a joke. I merely was observing that the meteorologist who wrote the original warning made no mention of the possibility of flooding in his terse message. Period. It's not that hard of a concept to grasp if your IQ is over 80.
Flooding mattered in Katrina, that's why the omission of it in his report was noteworthy.
Normal folks apologize when they are wrong. You think I'm stupid enough to (on the anniversary of Katrina) to come here and make a joke about a storm which killed ~1,800 folks? The answer is no. If I had done anything wrong in this thread I'd apologize.
I'm due an apology here from each of you.
I expect to get it from none of you.
See the graphic^.
Again, have someone who CAN actually read review what I posted in this thread. There was never any attempt by me for anything like a joke. I merely was observing that the meteorologist who wrote the original warning made no mention of the possibility of flooding in his terse message. Period. It's not that hard of a concept to grasp if your IQ is over 80.
Flooding mattered in Katrina, that's why the omission of it in his report was noteworthy.
Normal folks apologize when they are wrong. You think I'm stupid enough to (on the anniversary of Katrina) to come here and make a joke about a storm which killed ~1,800 folks? The answer is no. If I had done anything wrong in this thread I'd apologize.
I'm due an apology here from each of you.
I expect to get it from none of you.
See the graphic^.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 8:42 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
I was in Baton Rouge during the storm. Not much this way at all. But the drive in was the most surreal thing I've ever experienced. I had to go into work the morning it hit at about 5:30. I was traveling east into Baton Rouge on I-10. My trip across the river and into BR, I saw exactly one other car heading east...a MAP vehicle. On the west bound lanes, starting as far back as I could see, the interstate was a parking lot. People out walking dogs and stuff in the median.....at 5:30 in the morning. It was dead stop for the 15 miles I travel in the mornings. I've seen many bad wrecks and what not that have shut off the interstate over the years. Never seen that many people on the road all heading one way, with no one heading the other. All I could think was "Am I really driving TOWARD this son of a bitch?"
The storm, and the subsequent damage in Nola and the MS coast were horrible. But it didn't stop there. The gang "wars" that ensued in the BR area, and countless lives lost after it that were a direct result of so many being displaced will never be attributed to the storm. The "225s vs the 504s"....fun times for public safety in Baton Rouge for years after.
The storm, and the subsequent damage in Nola and the MS coast were horrible. But it didn't stop there. The gang "wars" that ensued in the BR area, and countless lives lost after it that were a direct result of so many being displaced will never be attributed to the storm. The "225s vs the 504s"....fun times for public safety in Baton Rouge for years after.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 8:49 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Had my Mom, Dad, sister, bil and their family staying with us in Prairieville while the storm hit NOLA. Lost electricity that morning, so had to sit in my car to catch WWL. Originally sounded like the worst had passed, and NOLA dodged a bullet. Then the reports of water and levee failures started. Called my Dad (who was NOLA to the core, channel rat) outside so I could tell him what had happened. When I did, all the color drained from his face and he fell back into a chair. The look on his face was something I'll never forget. Completely tore him up.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 9:05 pm to member12
And some dummies stayed behind
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