re: The Hurricane Katrina "Certain Death; Catastrophic Damage" warning.

That's unbelievable

You're a fricking idiot

Where were you at?

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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.

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correct big difference between the two was very very little live video footage of post betsy NO.. .and much fewer people incapable of caring for themselves and their chirrens

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Radio Lab - 'Playing God'

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wow, that is crazy to listen to

thanks for sharing

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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.

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Oh for Christ's sake.

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notiger1997


nobody predicted accurately the recent flooding

the flooding in NOLA was predicted since long before I was born.

many stayed behind with the means to get out - shelters were available all along the evac routes....and how many buses sat flooded in NOLA unused.... ray nagin...



by dummies I meant the people that had the means and refused.

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I was simply saying that there were more lives lost to this storm than what was lost in New Orleans. You don't have to like what I said, but I made more shooting and stabbing calls in the one year after that in Baton Rouge than any 5 year stretch since or before combined, and too many times you would go and hear folks screaming "225s" or "504s"...it is what it is. But don't fricking think for one minute that because you go to your office job and go home to your subdivision that this wasn't a problem because you didn't see it.

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An LSU criminologist actually studied the stats form 2006-2009. Take a look at what he found. I'm sure it was all the big, bad NOLA thugs causing the "225s" to act up. In fact, the "225s" didn't even exist prior to 8/29/05.


LINK

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“I don’t accept the argument that these were these invaders from outside. No, no, no, no,” said LSU criminologist Ed Shihadeh. Key perpetrators from 2006 to 2009, when crime rose, were found to be longtime Baton Rouge residents, he said.

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eta: To stay on track here, the 2 things that will always be ingrained in my memory are that fricking awful audio emergency broadcast and WWL TV signing off and showing up on the BR stations.

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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.

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Correct, that warning scared my wife so bad we left the coast and went to my parents, we returned to a slab.

Every single item in that warning + hell visited the MS coast that night.

A lot of people forget that the year before, Ivan threatened LA before it turned and went into the AL/FL border. Many evacuations were called in LA for Ivan and the evacuation process was a cluster-bleep of the highest order. It forced the government to go back and re-do all the contraflow and evacuation plans in time for the 2005 hurricane season. As bad as the Katrina evac was for some people, if we had been using the 2004 plan, it would have been much worse.

We left on Saturday afternoon and went to Jackson. I woke up early on Sunday and saw both that it had reached Cat 5 status, and the size of the hurricane on the color satelite. Just the absolute textbook presentation of the storm, the way it looked, the perfect eye, and the fact that it took up a good 2/3rds of the gulf. At that point, I think it struck me that places on the coast were going to cease to exist in about 24 hours.

My grandfather, who died in 2004, used to always tell me that the scary thing about hurricanes in the gulf is that, they generally don't fall apart, and every direction they can go in, once they enter the gulf, pretty much will always result in a landfall.

I saw that message in the OP on Sunday afternoon and it just made me numb. Had the storm hit the predicted path at the time of the message as a 170mph storm, all of that would have become true.

Someone mentioned a vehicle being on top of a tree branch. When we finally got back into Chalmette in late September, after we checked on our house, we went and checked on the inlaws house. Across the street from their house was a scene I will never forget, and I have the pictures somewhere to prove it, a toyota camry or smiliar sized vehicle sitting on TOP of a roof. I remember thinking, wow, what power water has, and wow, that's a strong roof!