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re: What was Katrina like?
Posted on 4/25/15 at 9:00 pm to gingerkittie
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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Posted on 4/25/15 at 9:46 pm to Ace Midnight
I had actually left for vacation on the Outer Banks and could not get back to the Mississippi Gulf Coast until after the storm. Of course, both our cars were at Gulfport Airport and Mobile Airport (Different flights) with a few gallons of gas in each as we were both running to catch our flights. We flew into Atlanta and rented a car to get home grabbing gas cans room AC etc on the way down.
The strangest thing to me was what happens when all mass communication goes out. Rumors become the news. Literally every person who I was told was dead, by police, doctors etc turned out to be ok. They were wrong most all of the time.
The aftermath was what is so bad. We buried people weekly at my little church. Many elderly people just seemed to give up.
The strangest thing to me was what happens when all mass communication goes out. Rumors become the news. Literally every person who I was told was dead, by police, doctors etc turned out to be ok. They were wrong most all of the time.
The aftermath was what is so bad. We buried people weekly at my little church. Many elderly people just seemed to give up.
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