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Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:05 am to GetBackToWork
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Cops were shot. Old people were abandoned. People were euthanized. Many older folks lost their pets, watched them drown.
Sounds like a party
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:08 am to xxKylexx
I've been wondering when someone will make a documentary to show what it was like. I wasn't there but man New Orleans was like a third world country that day.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:17 am to xxKylexx
Read "The Great Deluge" by Douglas Brinkley.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:19 am to xxKylexx
A couple of unbelievable videos showing the power of the storm surge.
St Bernard Parish
Gulfport, MS
St Bernard Parish
Gulfport, MS
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:20 am to xxKylexx
8ft of water in my house. I was younger than you were at the time. Around 14 years old. Having to tear it down after it had been gutted was harder than coping with the fact it was flooded in the first place. Now that I'm more mature, I could only imagine what my parents were going through at that time.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:25 am to GetBackToWork
quote:people were still doing this after Camille?
The hurricanes of the last decade seemed to finally kill any fleeting notion of throwing a hurricane party when one comes near
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:26 am to xxKylexx
Let's just say it wasn't bad enough.
On a serious note, my in-laws condo in Biloxi was simply a concrete slab afterwards and my sister-in-law had 8 ft in her house over by City Park. They now live in Madisonville. As other poster mentioned, Gustav was much worse here in BR than Katrina.
On a serious note, my in-laws condo in Biloxi was simply a concrete slab afterwards and my sister-in-law had 8 ft in her house over by City Park. They now live in Madisonville. As other poster mentioned, Gustav was much worse here in BR than Katrina.
This post was edited on 4/19/15 at 1:29 am
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:27 am to xxKylexx
It fuxking sucked dick
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:35 am to xxKylexx
There were dozens upon dozens of army blackhawk choppers flying around the AP and BR for months and months. I thought the constant droning and buzzing would never end.
Katrina itself was uncomfortable in the AP. We lost power for about a week or so and trees fell on our cars in the driveway. We had a shite ton of new residents and students in our schools. Some of the parish was a military staging areas for choppers, equipment and supplies caches. I remember Lamar Dixon expo in Gonzales looking like a military base and I thought shite looked serious and impressive.
The news coverage was insane and it was such a huge national story. I remember President Bush giving the speech in Jackson Square and while it was a nice speech, that still didn't cover up the epic failure of leadership with heck of a job brownie, Governor Blank Stare, and Chocolate City Nagin.
Katrina was and still is a big lesson for private citizens and gov't officials at all levels whether it be city, parish or federal and since then, every possible natural disaster was expertly managed and prepared for to the max.
Katrina itself was uncomfortable in the AP. We lost power for about a week or so and trees fell on our cars in the driveway. We had a shite ton of new residents and students in our schools. Some of the parish was a military staging areas for choppers, equipment and supplies caches. I remember Lamar Dixon expo in Gonzales looking like a military base and I thought shite looked serious and impressive.
The news coverage was insane and it was such a huge national story. I remember President Bush giving the speech in Jackson Square and while it was a nice speech, that still didn't cover up the epic failure of leadership with heck of a job brownie, Governor Blank Stare, and Chocolate City Nagin.
Katrina was and still is a big lesson for private citizens and gov't officials at all levels whether it be city, parish or federal and since then, every possible natural disaster was expertly managed and prepared for to the max.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:36 am to xxKylexx
Windy (very loud)
Lots of trees down (10-15ft piles trapping you in your hood)
Mud in the skreets (some places 3ft deep)
Smelly (never forget the smells)
No traffic
Generators a plenty
Cops took over all of the gas stations, so everyone was freaking out and fighting at the one or two that sold gas to civilians
National Guard blocking streets
Dead people laying on the sidewalks
Saw 13 bodies come out of one house
I can keep going, but I don't feel like it
Lots of trees down (10-15ft piles trapping you in your hood)
Mud in the skreets (some places 3ft deep)
Smelly (never forget the smells)
No traffic
Generators a plenty
Cops took over all of the gas stations, so everyone was freaking out and fighting at the one or two that sold gas to civilians
National Guard blocking streets
Dead people laying on the sidewalks
Saw 13 bodies come out of one house
I can keep going, but I don't feel like it
This post was edited on 4/19/15 at 1:46 am
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:42 am to Roger Klarvin
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Roger Klarvin
Can we get this kid out of here? Guy is a total dork
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:43 am to Hammertime
Quick easy read is Sally Formans book eye of the storm.... City hall press secretary and stayed for the whole time. Her husband was also running the zoo/aquarium.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:52 am to xxKylexx
Lived about a quarter mile off the beach in MS...
Not good times...
Not good times...
This post was edited on 4/26/15 at 6:14 am
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:58 am to xxKylexx
2005 was a terrible year between Katrina, Rita, and my older brother going to Iraq.
I definitely grew up a lot that year.
I definitely grew up a lot that year.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 2:10 am to xxKylexx
No power
MRE's
Thinking the actual storm wasn't so bad and then driving about 4 minutes south towards the beach and thinking it looked like a nuclear bomb went off. Casinos dragged across the highway, businesses leveled, clothes in the trees, the smell of dead bodies
Wasn't fun times. Was in 7th grade at the time. My school got wiped out
MRE's
Thinking the actual storm wasn't so bad and then driving about 4 minutes south towards the beach and thinking it looked like a nuclear bomb went off. Casinos dragged across the highway, businesses leveled, clothes in the trees, the smell of dead bodies
Wasn't fun times. Was in 7th grade at the time. My school got wiped out
Posted on 4/19/15 at 2:12 am to xxKylexx
My family's house in Metairie was okay luckily. We stayed at a family's place in Baton Rouge and I remember how shocked we all were when they announced on the radio that the levees had broken.
We had a generator in BR and we were able to catch some of the local news stations that night. After the storm a helicopter flew over the whole city for hours and provided live feed of the damage. It was like a horror movie.
I remember some older cousins from NOLA staying at my one bedroom apartment near LSU, which didn't have power for 3 weeks. Their house was trashed and they lost a car. I remember driving them around BR all day to find another Trailblazer, but it seemed like all the dealers were sold out of them. Couldn't find a rental car either with all the federal agencies buying and renting all the vehicles around.
Grocery stores in BR and Lafayette would be out of stock of pretty much everything by noon. A lot of gas stations would run out of gas....all due to the population and demand for goods skyrocketing overnight. Every restaurant or retail store was busy as hell. It was like that for months in BR.
I remember helping my cousins get their things out after the storm and the mold everywhere was shocking. It was so nasty. The smell was horrendous.
Edit: Traffic was gridlock for months. Houston evacuated when Rita approached and a lot of them got caught in a nightmarish traffic jamb on 10 between Houston and Baton Rouge. A lot of the fueling stations on that route quickly ran out of gas, hotel rooms all booked, etc. Houston was taking it seriously after New Orleans, but evacuate orders were so convoluted and the hurricane track shifted east anyways. Rita was very powerful as well.
We had a generator in BR and we were able to catch some of the local news stations that night. After the storm a helicopter flew over the whole city for hours and provided live feed of the damage. It was like a horror movie.
I remember some older cousins from NOLA staying at my one bedroom apartment near LSU, which didn't have power for 3 weeks. Their house was trashed and they lost a car. I remember driving them around BR all day to find another Trailblazer, but it seemed like all the dealers were sold out of them. Couldn't find a rental car either with all the federal agencies buying and renting all the vehicles around.
Grocery stores in BR and Lafayette would be out of stock of pretty much everything by noon. A lot of gas stations would run out of gas....all due to the population and demand for goods skyrocketing overnight. Every restaurant or retail store was busy as hell. It was like that for months in BR.
I remember helping my cousins get their things out after the storm and the mold everywhere was shocking. It was so nasty. The smell was horrendous.
Edit: Traffic was gridlock for months. Houston evacuated when Rita approached and a lot of them got caught in a nightmarish traffic jamb on 10 between Houston and Baton Rouge. A lot of the fueling stations on that route quickly ran out of gas, hotel rooms all booked, etc. Houston was taking it seriously after New Orleans, but evacuate orders were so convoluted and the hurricane track shifted east anyways. Rita was very powerful as well.
This post was edited on 4/19/15 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 4/19/15 at 2:41 am to xxKylexx
Put it this way. My dad who is an outgoing and personable individual won't talk about what he saw/dealt with in the 3 days after the storm.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:37 am to Golfer
I lived in jackson at the time and it didn't really seem that bad when it was coming through but we were without power for I think 11 days and getting gas for a generator was pretty much impossible. That's nothing compared to what the folks in NO went through but damn it was hot
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