What was Katrina like?

I didn't live there but everyone I have talked with that did wish they took more clothes and the car that was paid off.

For me, it was time off from LSU playing Final Fantasy X-2 for a week. We only lost power for an hour or so when they brought the power back on for the street over, which lost it for some reason. Good wind and rain.

Gustav fricked us pretty good, however.

Edit: Also, how do you need to ask this? I have decent memories from Andrew, and I was 8 at the time.

It was shitty,really shitty. With that being said what drove you to post this at 12:35am on a Sunday morning?

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I was in BR but lucky, the electricity was only out one day and the water didn't go out at all.

I had some trouble getting in touch w/ out of state relatives for a few days. That was probably my biggest problem.

The night of Katrina I was at sort of a hurricane party at the home of some friends who lived nearby (we were all still without power remember), and we began slowly getting intermittent cell phone messages from NO telling of rumors about flooding...

Co workers were talking about it tonight and couple of my managers. Realized that I really just played video games during the majority of my time away and figured what better place to ask than the OT board.

Rainy

Worked triage at one of the major field hospitals. Cops were shot. Old people were abandoned. People were euthanized. Many older folks lost their pets, watched them drown. All that was, and still is, mostly swept under the rug.

Bush was blamed by our incompetent local leadership for not overstepping his constitutional authority. It then became a political train wreck.