re: What's the truth on Katrina/Blackwater, etc.

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Mama D

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It wouldn't surprise me if they did have some type of operators for certain situations. The only story I know of is Terrebonne parish officers going up there to help. They got diverted because NOPD had started exchanging fire with the state troopers. The NOPD officers were guarding a warehouse they were storing their loot at.

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why do people claim the government blew up the levees?

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Because the ignorant will believe anything.
You might have 50 people total who actually believe that and most of them wouldn't have even thought of it if that dumb fck Bill Jefferson/Spike Lee wouldn't have given a few of the crazies a platform to speak about it.

For all that was going on and how easy things could have went to total hell, I am quite surprised and how little real rioting and trouble there was in the city.
Most of the stuff about what happened at the convention center was BS.
You did have some walmart and small scale looting, but it wasn't like huge gangs took over the city and were burning stuff down. Hell Ferguson was even worse.

Those dangerous criminal elements would have been shot with bullets that were traceable to the gun/shooter (issued by gov't) and dealt with in private hearings and confirmed to be justifiable and not a crime.

As for drugs, first responders were notified of some places that drugs were in vulnerable areas so the responders could go get the drugs if they had the means.

These are things I know happened. There are other things I wish I didn't know and still break my heart for the good people who had to go thru that.

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It was pretty bad. If people could have moved around easier it would have been much worse.

Don't believe Gen. Honore when he tells you the stories were not true. Many of them are very true. He wasn't there at the beginning and he wasn't in every part of the city.

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Exactly. My fiancee was NOFD also and at the superdome and other places and and he knew what the hell was going on because he lived it. I can't even begin to get into it.

funny...the first helicopter that landed at Baptist after was a private transport coming to pick up a loved one.

the evacuations were quite by accident organized by an observant Acadian ambulance employee. He helped organize the evacuation of Baptist by casually dropping down to check on us.

the next 24 hours were a flurry of volunteers such as myself trying to get as many non-ambulatory patients on those birds as possible.

the first being the neonatal babies. that was crazy. there first experience out of the unit was in the back of pick-up, driving to the top of the garage then being carried to a helicopter for a flight.

then it was driving up patients and carrying them up.

first national guard showed up without guns just to be a presence. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAH

then the hospital armed some of us and had us bar the doors.

the helicopters did stop for a while because of gunfire.

the convention center was filled with thousands who had no clue on how to help themselves. the waited for someone to help them. fostering an entitlement society led to this I believe

we got out by asking for a ride on a box truck that was dropping off. people were actually angry and threatening us because we were leaving.

there were vehicles roaming with armed thugs. most troubling was seeing a kid who had to be under twelve with a shotgun driving around with other armed guys.

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Don't believe Gen. Honore when he tells you the stories were not true. Many of them are very true.

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Instead, believe the psychotic masses who said babies were being raped at the convention center. ANd believe crazy bird Nagin who said 10,000 were already confirmed dead.

A place I worked at uptown was supposed to be a headquarters of sorts for blackwater. I wasn't working there during Katrina but the people who were would always talk about it.