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Posted on 4/19/15 at 11:53 am to lsufan112001
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I saw this one live. Quite humbling.
man, that is one that I will never forget...
Posted on 4/19/15 at 11:53 am to lsufan112001
Hard to believe it will be 10 years.
This post was edited on 4/19/15 at 11:55 am
Posted on 4/19/15 at 11:56 am to xxKylexx
I remember the riots in downtown BR
Posted on 4/19/15 at 11:58 am to xxKylexx
at the time I was in my last year of pharmacy school at Xavier... I was working at Lindy Boggs Medical on Jeff Davis, too, and was planning on going in to work for the hurricane...
my mom and girlfriend at the time (who is now my wife) would NOT let me... they made me get the hell out of dodge...
good thing too, because that was one of the hospitals that they had to airlift patients out of after the fact....
my apartment got ruined when the roof was torn off (I lived on the 3rd floor), but I didn't have much of anything anyway, so as far as personal loss, I wasn't affected that much, but it was still a very impactful experience after we had returned to school and the city... one I will never forget...
my mom and girlfriend at the time (who is now my wife) would NOT let me... they made me get the hell out of dodge...
good thing too, because that was one of the hospitals that they had to airlift patients out of after the fact....
my apartment got ruined when the roof was torn off (I lived on the 3rd floor), but I didn't have much of anything anyway, so as far as personal loss, I wasn't affected that much, but it was still a very impactful experience after we had returned to school and the city... one I will never forget...
Posted on 4/19/15 at 11:59 am to chRxis
seems like Xavier was flooded pretty bad, wasn't it?...
Posted on 4/19/15 at 12:06 pm to Spankum
yeah, some of it was... i was 4th year student, so i was in the rotation part of my schooling... normally, we do those in new Orleans, at various sites, but they had to scramble to set up stuff where ever we relocated to... for me that was around Houma/Thibodaux...
the 4th year students didn't actually have to go back to Xavier, so campus was more or less back to normal by the time we got there before graduation and stuff...
the 4th year students didn't actually have to go back to Xavier, so campus was more or less back to normal by the time we got there before graduation and stuff...
Posted on 4/19/15 at 12:08 pm to Hammertime
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In Indian Village in Slidell
We have a camp on the West Pearl and know a guy who rode out the storm in his house boat in Indian Village.. He said it was the most scared he's been in his life... This guy was a Vietnam Vet and has been all over the world... He said reality kicked in when the camp was over the power lines, and spent 6 hours just trying to keep it from getting destroyed... There was over a 25ft tidal surge on the Pearl south of I-10... The amazing thing was our little shite hole camp, that's between I-10 and I-59 on Porters Island, was still standing like nothing ever happened..
Posted on 4/19/15 at 12:08 pm to xxKylexx
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What was Katrina like?
Didn't affect me at all. Rita was worse.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 12:12 pm to NOLALGD
I had moved to the Las Vegas area just before Katrina hit. Easily the most surreal experience of my life was having lunch at a nearby bar / rest. and watching the coverage on TV. Turns out that one of the waitresses there was from St. Bernard, so as we started seeing the first pictures of the flooding and damage, we'd point out landmarks to others watching and ask each other if we still had lots of family / friends down there. I guess that my mind went into something of a protection mode, because while I knew what I was seeing was real, something in me tried to take it in as if it were a bad movie. I kept thinking, "look outside, everything's fine."
I learned a long time ago that whenever I'm back in New Orleans, I don't mention anything Katrina related. Folks know that I'll listen if they want to talk about it, I just don't initiate any conversations along that line. I still have friends that were NOFD, NOPD and first responders. They tell me stories that one would associate with Vietnam or Iraq. My first time back home post Katrina was March of 2006. I was flabbergasted by what I saw. All of my friends would tell me, "this is far better than what it was. Be glad that you weren't here immediately after."
I'm not a person that's given to emotional outbursts or getting in someone's grill but I did have an experience like that a couple of months after the storm. I was at a friend's house on a Sunday watching football when a Katrina relief PSA came on. One moron made a remark to the effect of, "OK, we get it. Katrina was terrible. Enough about it already." I snapped, got 2 inches from his face and let him have it. "News flash, a-hole. Those people are "sick of Katrina" as well. Unlike you, they can't turn off the TV, go outside and make it go away. How about doing the world a favor and having a massive heart attack so we don't have to hear any of your ignorance every again?" Talk about making a room go quiet in a hurry...
I learned a long time ago that whenever I'm back in New Orleans, I don't mention anything Katrina related. Folks know that I'll listen if they want to talk about it, I just don't initiate any conversations along that line. I still have friends that were NOFD, NOPD and first responders. They tell me stories that one would associate with Vietnam or Iraq. My first time back home post Katrina was March of 2006. I was flabbergasted by what I saw. All of my friends would tell me, "this is far better than what it was. Be glad that you weren't here immediately after."
I'm not a person that's given to emotional outbursts or getting in someone's grill but I did have an experience like that a couple of months after the storm. I was at a friend's house on a Sunday watching football when a Katrina relief PSA came on. One moron made a remark to the effect of, "OK, we get it. Katrina was terrible. Enough about it already." I snapped, got 2 inches from his face and let him have it. "News flash, a-hole. Those people are "sick of Katrina" as well. Unlike you, they can't turn off the TV, go outside and make it go away. How about doing the world a favor and having a massive heart attack so we don't have to hear any of your ignorance every again?" Talk about making a room go quiet in a hurry...
This post was edited on 4/19/15 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 4/19/15 at 12:17 pm to constant cough
I could write quite a bit but don't feel like it. I was reading and posting on this board up until my power went out. If chicken would unleash the week before and of course the couple months or so after it would make for fantastic reading. I remember reading Rummy's weather updates. It was bad times. The anxiousness of everyone both just before and much after.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 12:26 pm to Martini
Strange thing was...I was still in New Orleans when the storm (Cindy?) hit a couple of months before Katrina did. I remember a good bit of damage from that one and some areas in Metairie not having power for almost a week after that. I kept thinking, "man, if a tropical storm did this to us God forbid what direct hit from a CAT 4 or 5 would cause."
Back to Katrina, I had family from my dad's side that were living in Pearlington, MS when it struck. From what they told me, they were basically forgotten about and cut off from civilization for weeks.
Back to Katrina, I had family from my dad's side that were living in Pearlington, MS when it struck. From what they told me, they were basically forgotten about and cut off from civilization for weeks.
This post was edited on 4/19/15 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 4/19/15 at 12:33 pm to Mr. Hangover
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Jason where are you originally from
Venice/Boothville
Posted on 4/19/15 at 12:59 pm to OKtiger
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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.
Lived in br. In laws and friends of theirs from Westbank to Barataria were staying with us. We went back in early through a machine gun guarded checkpoint under guise of being sanitary company employees(our driver was). I came along with cameras to document and hopefully show proof of houses still standing for these people. We went to about 15 houses. Most were roller coasters of emotions for the group as their house(or a friend's we checked on) would look normal from outside. Then get inside and see the water line on the walls. Or a tree smashed the entire back half of house. I felt guilty at first being from br and taking storm lightly. Then I kinda felt like I needed to document the hell out of it like a frickin job. The least I could do for them. Somber drive back to br that evening. And that was the Westbank. Put shite into perspective because damage was about 1/3 of the the other side of the river.
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Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:01 pm to EastBankTiger
Yeah, my ex was from Bogalusa and his mom and grandmother came to stay with us in Baton Rouge. We ended up being without power for over a week.
We listened to the news on the radio and learned about the levees and how bad it had been. Cell phone use was spotty at best.
His sister and her little family and lots of other family stayed in Bogalusa, so the next day we attempted the drive back. Had to go the "back way" because most of the normal route was flooded. Took us about 6 hours to get there. Last little bit of the trip we ended up riding behind the national guard and they were cutting the trees out of the way.
Man, it looked rough there. More so than normal. A lot of spots were just flattened. They were without power for weeks. We would bring supplies up from Baton Rouge.
I think the first group in to help were the Royal Canadian Mounties. I always thought that was funny.
We listened to the news on the radio and learned about the levees and how bad it had been. Cell phone use was spotty at best.
His sister and her little family and lots of other family stayed in Bogalusa, so the next day we attempted the drive back. Had to go the "back way" because most of the normal route was flooded. Took us about 6 hours to get there. Last little bit of the trip we ended up riding behind the national guard and they were cutting the trees out of the way.
Man, it looked rough there. More so than normal. A lot of spots were just flattened. They were without power for weeks. We would bring supplies up from Baton Rouge.
I think the first group in to help were the Royal Canadian Mounties. I always thought that was funny.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:05 pm to biglego
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remember the riots in downtown BR
I remember hearing this in the radio and saying,"ain't no way.. None."
My roommate haf just found out someone had broken into his car and stole a pistol so he was telling people,"dey looted my car!",
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:08 pm to aVatiger
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remember hearing this in the radio and saying,"ain't no way.. None."
I worked for a well known man's company in br. Good sized building full of chatty women. At one point he came on a PA system to tell everyone stfu and stop the gossiping and nothing was going on around br. Get back to work.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 1:49 pm to chRxis
It was flooded by Xavier for a while. Really hard to get around right there. Had to drive all kinds of weird ways
IIRC, we finally made our way to Fountainbleau through Hollygrove where I saw medical personnel just stacking bodies in vans all over the place. I watched for about an hour and saw 13 bodies come out of one house. Then, went to work cleaning out houses after they were done. Being in someone's house that you don't know and seeing everything destroyed was pretty odd
IIRC, we finally made our way to Fountainbleau through Hollygrove where I saw medical personnel just stacking bodies in vans all over the place. I watched for about an hour and saw 13 bodies come out of one house. Then, went to work cleaning out houses after they were done. Being in someone's house that you don't know and seeing everything destroyed was pretty odd
This post was edited on 4/19/15 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 4/19/15 at 2:27 pm to Hammertime
Posted on 4/19/15 at 2:37 pm to tigerdup07
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People were euthanized.
Read "Five Days at Memorial"
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