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Did anybody have family in/around NOLA that were clueless about Katrina coming?
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:55 am
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:55 am
I had family I had to call early Sunday morning 8/28 and tell them to GET OUT NOW. They knew Katrina was coming but had zero clue how bad it was. I was on the phone with them when they turned on the TV and reality set it. They packed a few days of clothes and then spent 24 hours on the road driving to Houston thinking they'd be back to NOLA after a few days.
The amount of people who did not evacuate was astonishing when you look back at it.
The amount of people who did not evacuate was astonishing when you look back at it.
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Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:56 am to sidewalkside
These pretzels are makin me thirsty
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:58 am to Cosmo
quote:Too much drinking and not a care about the world around them.
These pretzels are makin me thirsty
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:59 am to sidewalkside
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The amount of people who did not evacuate was astonishing when you look back at it.
It's really not. You know you will lose power and get wind damage. And you know streets will flood. But having levees break and the city flood wasn't expected. Don't forget we had previous false warnings the same year which backed traffic up in BR for days and no hurricane came.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:00 am to sidewalkside
I was in Terrebonne parish and didn’t know a hurricane was coming until Saturday. Was actually in NOLA Friday night. Didn’t evacuate. Didn’t die or have any impact other than power going out
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 11:01 am
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:00 am to sidewalkside
No, but my brother had moved to the city a week before for grad school and was visiting me in BR. He had to work at the Tulane university bookstore or something on Saturday, and I told him that's pretty stupid. He went down Friday, then had to come right back on Sunday taking however many ungodly hours to get back to my apartment. Tremendous waste of time. 
Obviously didn't go back for months after.
Obviously didn't go back for months after. This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 11:02 am
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:07 am to sidewalkside
Not clueless, but prepping as usual. Then on Sunday told to leave so we did. Like most everyone else.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:07 am to sidewalkside
Me! Ish.
Was moving back to Nola. Flew into Nola knowing it was coming. Me and 7 other passengers on 737. One lady was staying at Hyatt. I warned her what hurricanes can do to electricity and water. Can imagine what she actually experienced.
Planned to evacuate w/family who was already there.
Hard to understand if using hindsight as your starting point. Nola laid backness plus weather channel crying wolf for years plus many without real means to respond anyways and poof.
Was moving back to Nola. Flew into Nola knowing it was coming. Me and 7 other passengers on 737. One lady was staying at Hyatt. I warned her what hurricanes can do to electricity and water. Can imagine what she actually experienced.
Planned to evacuate w/family who was already there.
Hard to understand if using hindsight as your starting point. Nola laid backness plus weather channel crying wolf for years plus many without real means to respond anyways and poof.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:13 am to sidewalkside
I had no idea, but I had been in Vegas with my wife and a few other couples since the previous Thursday. In 2005 we all had blackberries so no one was on the Internet on their phone, and no one was watching the news while in Vegas. I found out when I called my brother for some baseball picks because that was really the only sport to gamble on at the time. He was at my house preparing it by bringing patio furniture, potted plants, etc inside. We extended the trip to Monday and had to fly into Houston and rent a car to get to Baton Rouge to meet up with the rest of our families.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:16 am to sidewalkside
We left on Sunday like everyone else
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:17 am to sidewalkside
I didn't know a storm was even coming until Saturday around midday. Had been out all night on Friday and woke up with a huge hangover and a bunch of missed calls and texts from my parents and my roommates.
I still had a sour taste in my mouth about evacuations from a storm the year before that took me 19 hours to get from NOLA to Houston. 12 hours just to get to BR. I didn't want to go through that bullshite again, so me and one of my roommates were just going to stay back for Katrina. Roommate got cold feet later in the afternoon and decided to head to Texas to meet up with their family who had evacuated. I ended up deciding against staying back alone and got some rest and left NOLA around 4am on Sunday morning to go to Houston with just a couple days worth of clothes. When they let us back in to check on stuff and retrieve belongings a week or so later, I got back home to an apartment that had taken about 2' of water and everything that wasn't below the water line was still covered in mold.
I still had a sour taste in my mouth about evacuations from a storm the year before that took me 19 hours to get from NOLA to Houston. 12 hours just to get to BR. I didn't want to go through that bullshite again, so me and one of my roommates were just going to stay back for Katrina. Roommate got cold feet later in the afternoon and decided to head to Texas to meet up with their family who had evacuated. I ended up deciding against staying back alone and got some rest and left NOLA around 4am on Sunday morning to go to Houston with just a couple days worth of clothes. When they let us back in to check on stuff and retrieve belongings a week or so later, I got back home to an apartment that had taken about 2' of water and everything that wasn't below the water line was still covered in mold.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:19 am to sidewalkside
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and then spent 24 hours on the road driving to Houston
Hope it wasn't that long. NOLA isn't that big.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:20 am to sidewalkside
I left at around 6am on Saturday. That morning I mentioned the hurricane to the cashier at the gas station. She had no idea what I was talking about. No one was expecting the turn that the storm made on Friday night. It just wasn't front-of-mind; New Orleans had not been in the discussion.
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 11:23 am
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:23 am to sidewalkside
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The amount of people who did not evacuate was astonishing when you look back at it.
ever seen the episode of the wire where Brodie is all confused about the radio going out while driving to Philly?
he couldnt understand why they had different radio outside of Baltimore and said he had never left Baltimore before.
well in NOLA you had a lot of residents like that, they had never left NOLA before and had zero means of doing so
and if not for the levies breaking, they would have been fine, just without power for a couple of days.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:25 am to sidewalkside
Keep in mind there was not nearly as much information available. You couldn't go pull up models, you were almost totally relying on local news outlets. There was also some storm fatigue from previous evacuations were nothing happened.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:25 am to Proximo
quote:No bueno
We left on Sunday like everyone else
Didn’t evacuate but went to a kinda local hospital (not in NOLA and not terrible, only bad).
Would have evacuated had I known.
I have another property now away from hurricane risk.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:26 am to sidewalkside
When a predicted CAT 5 is coming anywhere close to you, GTFO dummies!
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:29 am to sidewalkside
Short of being homeless, I don’t know how it was possible to be in the city and NOT know or hear of how bad it was going to be.
Experts literally warned the city for decades that what happened was going to happen when getting hit by a monster.
Experts literally warned the city for decades that what happened was going to happen when getting hit by a monster.
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 11:29 am
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:29 am to Tiger Prawn
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I still had a sour taste in my mouth about evacuations from a storm the year before that took me 19 hours to get from NOLA to Houston. 12 hours just to get to BR. I didn't want to go through that bullshite again, so me and one of my roommates were just going to stay back for Katrina.
That Hurricane Ivan evacuation was a huge waste of time and was a big reason why a lot of people stayed for Katrina.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:33 am to TDsngumbo
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Experts literally warned the city for decades that what happened was going to happen when getting hit by a monster.
Most disasters involve people having been warned for decades and after many close calls no one believes it will actually happen.
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