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re: AMAZING RAW VIDEO Hurricane Katrina roof top flooding St Bernard La
Posted on 8/17/18 at 10:54 am to LSUtoBOOT
Posted on 8/17/18 at 10:54 am to LSUtoBOOT
Ahhh that’s not entirely true. Harvey was 4 inches of rain per hour. Yes there would have been street flooding of course but in comparison the August 5th flood yielded 9 inches of rain per hour. So you see the comparison.
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Posted on 8/17/18 at 10:59 am to Byrdybyrd05
Just watching that video and reading through this completely changed my demeanor sitting here. The memories that it brings up, the images, the suffering, the damage, the loss. There have been very few event in my lifetime that triggers such feelings and I hope I never have to experience another one. 9/11, Katrina, LA floods of 2016, and the Houston flood in '17. I was lucky enough to have moved out of LA just a couple of months before Katrina hit. I again was lucky in Houston last year watching my surrounding neighbors flood while we stayed dry. I helped gut homes that took on 12' of water. It really puts things into perspective when you see it in your neighborhood and help with the cleanup.
My wife and I counted our blessings and got our asses to work helping out as much as we could. I hope my kid never has to experience anything like it.
My wife and I counted our blessings and got our asses to work helping out as much as we could. I hope my kid never has to experience anything like it.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:19 am to JawjaTigah
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We lived in Atlanta in 2005; it was horrible to see this unfolding onour TV. Like a SoLA 9/11 in slow mo. A lot of tears and guilt at not being with everybody.
I don't think I've ever felt so helpless, being up here in CO and not being able to do anything.
The other thing is at first I thought NOLA had made it through relatively unscathed. Then the stories started coming in about the levees being breached and relief turned to horror.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:45 am to 5Alive
With all due respect, read up on the May 1995 flood, which was less than 30 inches over a two day period and devastated many areas in Nola and the Northshore, to name a couple. I hope Nola never sees the rain Houston did last year, but if it does, it will be more than street flooding.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 12:28 pm to Byrdybyrd05
I watched a video from Venice of a guy who stayed on his boat and made a video of the storm. He had tied it at 10 or so different heights and made it to the last ones before the water started to recede. That fella had balls of steel to stay but that was his livelihood and he needed to protect it. Crazy stuff
Posted on 8/17/18 at 12:32 pm to canerow
I would love to see that video.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 2:41 pm to Hangover Haven
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and now I think Mississippi is trying to stop this project because they claim it will cause more flooding there...
Good point. The last study performed on this "final solution" mentioned this in the abstract. I smell Mississippi politicians.....
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The results of this study are designed to improve upon the previous work by extending the analysis to examine the effects of these barrier configurations on surge patterns along the Mississippi coastline.
To stop a project that could protect a couple million people around the perimeter of Lake Pontchartrain because Mississippi doesn't want it to happen is ridiculous. In addition, think of the development boom that would follow along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain in the virtual absence of a surge flooding threat. In this way, the project would more than pay for itself.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 3:38 pm to LSUtoBOOT
New pumps and canals were built well after 95. See the SELA project.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 4:03 pm to Byrdybyrd05
I don’t remember what it was called. I watched it at work with some coworkers. IIRC it was for sale in the Venice marina.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 4:05 pm to Byrdybyrd05
I remember Katrina like it was yesterday. It was surreal seeing it all unfold firsthand through a scope from atop the super dome
Posted on 8/17/18 at 4:21 pm to Byrdybyrd05
This video is recorded by a buddy of mine, thru the whole storm. Video during the storm, after, fires, looters, citizens with guns. It’s about as accurate as it was.
Some of its funny.
*Long, but you can skip around.
Live NOFD video
Some of its funny.
*Long, but you can skip around.
Live NOFD video
Posted on 8/17/18 at 4:56 pm to LSUcajun77
Thanks for posting that video. I love watching documentaries. Putting myself in those situations I couldn’t imagine going through that as it happened and then not knowing if families and friends are ok. Then you have the aftermath of the cleanup of your life and city. That takes a big toll on you.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 6:19 pm to MountainTiger
quote:Exactly our experience. Helpless, stunned, guilty feelings, horror, anger, sadness, frustration, grief as surreal videos and stories started emerging from ground zero NOLA and St. Bernard.
The other thing is at first I thought NOLA had made it through relatively unscathed. Then the stories started coming in about the levees being breached and relief turned to horror.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 6:36 pm to Byrdybyrd05
That was incredibly sad to watch because they all seem like great people
Posted on 8/17/18 at 6:50 pm to FLTech
Yea I was wondering how the guys on the video were doing especially the guy who was talking about in 40 years I will be one hundred and something. Alot of people’s lives were changed after that and after seeing the live reports of New Orleans under water I thought New Orleans was never coming back.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 7:03 pm to Byrdybyrd05
I have some footage from Fox news during the actually hurricane. Heard Geraldo say GD as they were trying to help someone that was drowning. Didn't have a DVD recorder at time so it was VHS. I need to dig that out of the vault tonight.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:43 pm to Byrdybyrd05
This belongs on a national archive.
Damn, those memories.
Damn, those memories.
Posted on 8/18/18 at 1:09 am to Byrdybyrd05
I was at work off the expressway service road. I have never left for a storm I do now. Worst storm I have ever seen. I lived in Gentilly and at 9:30am I was trying to call my neighbor and he finally answered and said things weren't that bad. 9:30am is when the London ave canal broke. I talked to him later he said that water was in the house by 10. I lived about 3/4 of a mile from the break. I lost everything.
Posted on 8/18/18 at 5:10 am to Byrdybyrd05
Wow. It amazes me how bad it was in NO, yet Baton Rouge escaped with little damage. I feel really lucky after watching that.
Posted on 8/18/18 at 7:54 am to Byrdybyrd05
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