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60 years ago today - Hurricane Betsy strikes Southeast Louisiana
Posted on 9/9/25 at 9:19 am
Posted on 9/9/25 at 9:19 am
Landfall - Just west of Grand Isle
Maximum sustained winds at landfall = 115 knots (132 mph)
Minimum central pressure at landfall = 946 mb
Fatalities = 81
Damage = $1.42 billion in 1965 (~ $14.5 billion today)
Maximum sustained winds at landfall = 115 knots (132 mph)
Minimum central pressure at landfall = 946 mb
Fatalities = 81
Damage = $1.42 billion in 1965 (~ $14.5 billion today)
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Posted on 9/9/25 at 9:34 am to NorthEndZone
Pretty bad bitch she was. That’s a lot of destruction for that decade.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 9:47 am to dukke v
How dare you bring this up so close to the anniversary of the only Hurricane to ever hit Louisiana and only Louisiana ever.
Put some respect on Katrinas name.
Put some respect on Katrinas name.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 9:54 am to Patfic15
Hate to break this to you but Katrina wasn’t that bad if the levees don’t fail… I’d say IDA was worse as far as power.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 10:02 am to NorthEndZone
Remember it well, as if it were just yesterday...9 years old, Westgate subdivision
Posted on 9/9/25 at 10:05 am to Patfic15
quote:
How dare you bring this up so close to the anniversary of the only Hurricane to ever hit Louisiana and only Louisiana ever.
Put some respect on Katrinas name.
Katrina didn't go across southern Florida, and eventually Mississippi as well as Louisiana?
Posted on 9/9/25 at 10:10 am to NorthEndZone
Kicked the shite out of BR. My father was working at BRGH and it fricked up the hospital.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 10:11 am to dukke v
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Hate to break this to you but Katrina wasn’t that bad if the levees don’t fail… I’d say IDA was worse as far as power.
Not for Louisiana anyway. Mississippi Gulf coast got hammered. The surge in Waveland was over 30 feet. Had the storm not jogged east in the last few hours and that 30' wall of water had hit NOLA, there'd be nothing left.
Ida was bad across the board, because it came inland and then just sat for a day, grinding up everything between Houma-Grand Isle to Hammond. It jogged east at the end as well. Had Ida hit Baton Rouge, it would have been very, very bad.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 10:23 am to dukke v
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Katrina wasn’t that bad if the levees don’t fail… I’d say IDA was worse as far as power.
Parents were without power for 4 weeks south of Bogalusa. Eastern Washington and St Tammany parish got absolutely smoked by Katrina.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 10:25 am to NorthEndZone
My mom (no pics) was 13, almost 14 when Betsy hit. She said everyone went to church right after it passed. Only problem was, it was only the eye and no one knew any better. People stampeding out to get back home. Betsy blew the steeple down off the church, but I don’t know if it was before or after the eye.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 10:52 am to wfallstiger
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Remember it well, as if it were just yesterday...9 years old, Westgate subdivision
I was 12 and living in the Lower 9th Ward when Betsy hit. I was living on Dauphine St. and we never got any floodwater but just 3 blocks away on St. Claude there was a couple feet of water holding strong.
Puglia's Grocery Store on St. Claude and Caffin Ave. opened their store and told people to take anything they wanted except things that were refrigerated.
I remember being in that store and loading up on canned goods to bring back home and the smell of things going bad in the place while wading in the water that filled the aisles.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 11:13 am to NorthEndZone
I remember it. Was living on St. Roch Ave. Had 3-4 feet of water on the street.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 11:17 am to dukke v
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Hate to break this to you but Katrina wasn’t that bad if the levees don’t fail… I’d say IDA was worse as far as power.
By far. Ida tore the hell out of the river parishes, Terrebonne, and Lafourche.
Remember Betsy well, the first big storm I went through. The noise was terrifying for me as a 5 year old and seeing all the huge pecan trees toppled on our land was amazing to me then.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 11:19 am to Gee Grenouille
quote:
Eastern Washington and St Tammany parish got absolutely smoked by Katrina.
Facts. WST basically had to rebuild most of its power grid in a lot of Washington and St Tammany Parishes.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 11:21 am to wfallstiger
Same. 12 years old living in Riveroaks.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 11:45 am to midlothianlsu
We had a lot of tree cutting at our house in st Charles parish , 5-6 very large hackberry trees were blown down. It delayed school opening a week, but most importantly, on the first day of school the most attractive co-ed I had ever seen sat next to me on the bus. 60 years later we are still best friends with 3 children, 3 grandchildren, and two great grandchildren
Posted on 9/9/25 at 12:15 pm to gumbo2176
Those were days - I am afraid, where such courtesies have faded
We got no flooding - trees down, power lines down and vividly remember a handful of dead birds . The elementary school had significant roof and water damage
We got no flooding - trees down, power lines down and vividly remember a handful of dead birds . The elementary school had significant roof and water damage
Posted on 9/9/25 at 12:25 pm to NorthEndZone
Isn't it pretty odd that it turned SSW this late in the season?
Posted on 9/9/25 at 12:27 pm to double d
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By far. Ida tore the hell out of the river parishes, Terrebonne, and Lafourche.
when I first saw the destruction of Ida when I got back to Montegut and Chauvin, I was freaking amazed at how bad it was.
then I started doing damage surveys on Grand Isle about a week or so after.
OH. MY. GOD.
that place got straight fricked up.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 12:39 pm to dukke v
quote:if my aunt had nuts, she would be my uncle.
Hate to break this to you but Katrina wasn’t that bad if the levees don’t fail
and if you want to get technical, the levees didnt fail in nola. I walls did. Some levees overtopped but thats not failure.
New Orleans got the weakest side of the hurricane. MS too the hit and was wiped clean 3 or 4 blocks in from the beach. Kartrina had cat 5 surge. Ida Ida moved fast.
This post was edited on 9/9/25 at 12:43 pm
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