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re: What was Katrina like?
Posted on 4/21/15 at 3:05 am to gingerkittie
Posted on 4/21/15 at 3:05 am to gingerkittie
The recovery should be remembered as much as the struggle....I can't give impactful experiences like the previous ones but what a job the people of this city did coming back.
Fixing a city
(The original credit goes to a YouTube poster named TibbaDoe)
That journey from 05-06 was so hard for many people, but this is a tribute to the city and its response.
Lots of Saints fans love 2009. I've been going to games since '87...no team, and I mean NO team will be more valuable than the 2006 squad...
Fixing a city
(The original credit goes to a YouTube poster named TibbaDoe)
That journey from 05-06 was so hard for many people, but this is a tribute to the city and its response.
Lots of Saints fans love 2009. I've been going to games since '87...no team, and I mean NO team will be more valuable than the 2006 squad...
This post was edited on 4/21/15 at 3:09 am
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Posted on 4/21/15 at 6:39 am to drockw1
I remember going to the first Greekfest after Katrina. They busted their arse and had it going at that church. I left at night. It was amazing how dark and silent it was on Robert E Lee. You could absolutely leave your windows down while driving and not worry about any crime as there was just no one. Then you get on the interstate and the city is just dark. No lights at all and this is 2006 Memorial Day weekend. Very eerie.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 6:53 am to prplhze2000
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You could absolutely leave your windows down while driving and not worry about any crime
Do you usually have to roll your windows up in Lakeview on Robert E Lee in fear of a moving crime attack?
This post was edited on 4/21/15 at 6:56 am
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:03 am to Breesus
Not that area but in others I normally would have, there was simply no one. Sorry I wasn't clear.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:05 am to xxKylexx
I work for the gas co. - and I remember while working in St. Bernard after the storm bringing the gas system back up - (this was a few months after the storm). Grass began grown up between the mud and along with it came pansy flowers all over the place from the seeds being spread all around. But I found this one house where a marijuana plant had grown to about 4ft w/ buds...I thought about getting some, but then thought - The owner of the house is going to need this more than me....
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:16 am to Neilfish
It would be fun to go random plant marijuana buds or seeds around town and see what would happen.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 9:51 pm to prplhze2000
Bump. Anymore stories?
Posted on 4/21/15 at 10:16 pm to xxKylexx
I remember seeing the satellite images of Katrina thinking "well, there goes Nola".
I drove from Baton Rouge to Morgan City the day before. It was surreal . I was the only car heading south and gridlock heading north .
Uncle's house had a 20kW generator . AC , TV, hot water , the works . No issues for us.
Baton Rouge traffic went crazy afterwards .
Then, all those damn greenie weenies on campus ,
I drove from Baton Rouge to Morgan City the day before. It was surreal . I was the only car heading south and gridlock heading north .
Uncle's house had a 20kW generator . AC , TV, hot water , the works . No issues for us.
Baton Rouge traffic went crazy afterwards .
Then, all those damn greenie weenies on campus ,
This post was edited on 4/21/15 at 10:22 pm
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:36 pm to MightyYat
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Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:54 pm to xxKylexx
Can-o-corn - piece of cake. I got the frick out like they told us to instead of waiting for the guvment to hold my hand and do it for me.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 12:14 am to gingerkittie
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I would be interested in hearing more about what your brother and you experienced. Thanks you to your brother and your choice to be there in a situation that that was so traumatic and surreal.
I wonder if there is a book about the various people like you and your brother about the experiences of those who stayed to weather the storm in the capacity where they had people to care for.
I would like to hear more from the first responders (firefighters, cops, paramedics, medical workers and such). It would be interesting to hear from a variety of such people about what they experience and what conditions they were under and what they did in the line of duty.
For them to have stayed when everyone was urged so strongly to leave was an absolute act of bravery. I don't think anyone could have imagine what was going to happen, how bad it would be and how Katrina turned the area basically into a third world type experience.
These where people with a sense of duty, compassion, courage under fire and what they had to go thru was beyond traumatic. How helpless they must have felt when all hell broke loose. There were so many they could not help.
From what I saw, they were NOT the ones who wanted to talk with the reporters in the aftermath. My late fiance (let's just call him "The Captain) and I encountered many media types hounding us for an interview. He declined each time.
Yet, as I have observed, the idiots of the world are all to happy and just LOVE to be interviewed and tell their stories. So sad to see the idiots being the ones to represent the population of New Orleans.
One lady who stood out to me was the one complaining about the "conamitated" water. Yes, she said "conamitated (not contaminated) and other words that made her look like an uneducated, entitled fool. She was far from the only idiot who had their 15 minutes of fame.
But back to the original topic, the ones who stayed behind because they had a job to do. I wish more of them would come forward to share so that a well chosen writer could write a memoir so that their voices could be heard.
Perhaps anonymity would be a good way of letting them speak so that they could be brutally honest in telling their stories.
I often think of Officer Paul Accardo who committed suicide around Sept 4th, 2005 as all of the hell was breaking loose. As a PIO (Public Information Officer) his name and face were a familiar sight on Tv as he was the police dept spokeperson and public liason. he was so traumatized by the people he could nit help.
More on Paul at these links LINK LINK LINK
Paul was such a sad case. I don't talk about it very much. It's just something I don't care to rehash.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 12:56 am to MightyYat
I will say this...between Katrina and so many other things that happened in 2005, I've never been so glad to see midnight on NYE and a New Year.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 2:52 am to MightyYat
I was one of those media types at the time, and Paul was always the best PIO to deal with. I was floored when I heard he was suddenly gone. He often hated hearing from us but was always fair and did his job. #RIP
Posted on 4/25/15 at 3:24 am to drockw1
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This post was edited on 12/19/18 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 4/25/15 at 7:56 am to gingerkittie
That was a sad situation. I didn't know the man, but he always seemed like a straight arrow when doing his interviews.
I was stunned when I heard about his suicide. In retrospect, I wonder if it was his personal losses or the shitstorm he knew he'd have to eventually face about NOPD misconduct that drove him over the edge. Stolen Cadillacs and abandoned posts, the Henry Glover shooting was a couple of days before and the Danzinger Bridge shooting was the same day he shot himself (I think).
I was stunned when I heard about his suicide. In retrospect, I wonder if it was his personal losses or the shitstorm he knew he'd have to eventually face about NOPD misconduct that drove him over the edge. Stolen Cadillacs and abandoned posts, the Henry Glover shooting was a couple of days before and the Danzinger Bridge shooting was the same day he shot himself (I think).
Posted on 4/25/15 at 4:50 pm to MightyYat
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Posted on 4/25/15 at 6:02 pm to gingerkittie
Some pics I have left from lower plaquemines parish. I used to have more but can't find them.
Empire Area- House on HWY 23
Grandparent's house in Pilottown. They used to have 5 houses before Katrina in the area I took the pic. I was able to get a good pic by climbing on a barge that had floated on their property.
Empire Area- House on HWY 23
Grandparent's house in Pilottown. They used to have 5 houses before Katrina in the area I took the pic. I was able to get a good pic by climbing on a barge that had floated on their property.
This post was edited on 4/25/15 at 6:04 pm
Posted on 4/25/15 at 6:10 pm to LSUzealot
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Posted on 4/25/15 at 7:37 pm to gingerkittie
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I truly hope you were not offended or took my words to be disrespectful of Paul or you in any way. To this day, the tragedy of what Paul experienced hurts my heart.
Oh no, not at all. Katrina changed Paul immediately and he wore that on his sleeve right away. You could tell the shite was getting to him in a bad way. It was just so chaotic during those first few days it was tough to really make people sit down and deal with their emotions. There just wasn't enough hours in the day. My unit was pretty much running 18-20 hour shifts. Basically we would go out with the guys that hadn't passed out from exhaustion yet.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 9:00 pm to gingerkittie
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The New York firefighters were some of the hardest working volunteers on the scene and made a great impression on local citizens, he said.
One of my surreal moments of the aftermath is related to New York - after the initial crisis (and I mean the period covering the weekend before the storm until the following Monday, after the Convention Center and Dome had been evacuated) - I was afforded a rotation of 10 days on, 4 days off for some time, and I was at Carville for most of September and October. In November, we moved back into New Orleans to relieve guardsmen from other states. On one of my return trips from home, I was on the Bonnet Carré spillway (I-10), eastbound, just outside of Kenner and I saw what appeared to be a felony stop on the side of the road. The officers and vehicles were all marked, "New York State Police".
Surreal is the only way I can describe it.
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