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

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we had a guy sliced up from a knife fight while looting the walgreens at napoleon another fine lady was stabbed by her daughter with a butter knife over drugs don't even get me started about what we saw at the intersection of napoleon and st.charles.... rite aid looted to hell, all the booze being stolen from fat harry's and copelands...people trying to break into a church...crazy

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and idiots still believe we are not a primate species. Sorry but,we were not cast out of a beautiful garden. This is a good example of our true nature.

At one point a "crew" had stolen doZens of tvs from the bars and restaurants on convention center blvd and were standing watch over them to make sure no one took their loot.

Yep Lakeview,
That pretty much nails the whole situation in two sentences.

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I was at Building 35 at Jackson Barracks when the storm passed. For those of you unfamiliar with Jackson Barracks - it is the "end" of the city next to Arabi - it is a thin slice of land that intersects and runs perpendicular to N. Claiborne/W. Judge Perez and St. Claude in the Lower Ninth Ward. After the levees failed, we were inundated and much of the Louisiana National Guard command and control personnel had to be evacuated, which took much of the rest of Monday. I was evacuated to the Superdome around 2100 or 2200, via boat to the river levee and UH-60 to the dome.

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I like to tell visitors that if you want to see what $325 million dollars looks like, go to Jackson Barracks today...I can't comprehend why the new buildings in Areas B-E aren't built a lot higher than they are!!!

This is a great response with a lot of truth...I want to do a research paper one of these days on what happened with the Louisiana National Guard...where the F*** was Benny Landrineau because Kathleen Babineaux Blanco had folded like a cheap tent before the storm hit...

She also didn't comprehend the public affairs battle that she totally screwed up...she should have allowed reporters with the state rescue effort to show that Louisiana was helping itself...

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"See those two 5-tons CPT Boudreaux? We found them about 400 yards from your FMS, got them up and running and used it. Here ya go. My boys and those Kentucky mechanics were incredible" ISU-90's on Lakefront airport? That was a phone call away to get stuff we needed.

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why am i totally not surprised???

maybe you could explain a couple of things to me....

WHY THE (*&(*&(*&( didn't anyone simply load up a couple of barges and send them down the river?

then load the people at the convention center onto barges and get them upriver far enough to link up with ground transport?

hell, in 1965 barges were used to move military equipment down into Plaquemines Parish after Hurricane Betsy...I don't have immediate access to the picture, but if anyone here had a relative who worked for Freeport Sulphur...the company newspaper had a picture of the MV V.J. Vallot pushing a barge loaded with National Guardsmen and equipment downriver...my father, who spent Betsy on the boat tied to the old dock on the river at Port Sulphur was at the helm...

All the equipment that we had after the 82nd pulled out was either helo battalions or a small smattering of other units for a couple of weeks.

Illinois and Kentucky were the main players as the NG headquarters was established at De LaSalle HS under the Division Artillery Command from the KYARNG. Primary equipment (HMMWVs) came from these two states. The DIVARTY commander was the lead for all NG operations on the ground.

Once we got on the ground after traveling from Alexandria, we signed for the equipment from them. We were based out of the Hilton, the TF HQ at least with companies spread from the NASA site to the Art College and Nunery. I was based out of NO East from Crowder-Hayne, west to the canal and commanding a 120-man rifle company, with members primarily from Spokane and Pullman, WA.

We were there for a month and a half until the LAARNG was pulled early from Iraq and sent back.

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Who was the black female famous singer that gave I reviews and said she was raped? Want to say Neville. Truth or no?

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Irma Thomas

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Irma Thomas

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during Katrina?

i thought i read some story where she had been raped, but not during Katrina or the aftermath...

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Irma Thomas

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No it was Charmaine Neville and many people have raised doubts on that story. She also says she saw alligators eating not dead bodies but living people.

One way in and out where we live. Set upcheck point at the entrance with other neighbors that stayeday. About day 4-5 after the storm a plains cloths sheriff and trooper pulled up. Said do what we had to, keep a count and to throw them in the bayou that had to be crossed to get where we were and they would find them later. Made it a little surreal to sat the least.