Craziest/Shadiest/Scariest thing you saw in Katrina Aftermath

Lootie of course.

Traffic being dead stopped for days causing people to just abandon their cars on I10 in BR. Thats when I knew it was gonna be a major infrastructure problem for a loooong time.

For me was all the people stuck in the convention center and the super dome days after the hurricane. There should have been help sent over right after the storm even though they were told to evacuate the city.

The overall shock of it all. The houses in the middle of the street in St. Bernard. The lights on the gno and the city being off. The overall feel that everything in certain areas were devastated. Very weird times.

One of my personal favorites was when I talked to some execs from Hibernia Bank who were standing around a branch across from where we were staying on the West Bank. They related that while others were out looting TV's, shoes and other BS, some enterprising individuals used a truck and chain to pull out of the ground and steal all of the detached ATM's at their branches. They were laughing that with no power to set off the alarms or power the video cameras whoever did it got away clean. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of unmarked random bills while others were stealing TV's and cell phones that wouldn't work with the power off.

Noted for the next big storm.

The selfishness of people...not talking looting. POS I worked with called me crying that he was asked to work for Katrina. Grown man crying and pleading with me to work for him. The bosses called me in because he was such a pussy and was screwing stuff up. People who didn't work during Katrina were still paid full salary (5 weeks). Jump forward to a month after..still working out of Baton Rouge. The bosses called the guy to show up at the main building in New Orleans to help clean up. He freaking complained and asked why don't they have me come in to clean up. I lost my house and didn't even have a place to stay in New Orleans...

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Lots of crazy that we heard about.

The scariest, though, is a friend of ours who stayed uptown through the storm and for the following week until forced to evacuate. He hasn't been the same ever since. Other friends died at much younger ages than we would have expected them to.

All we could do up here was be an open house. For two + months, I had no leftovers at all. And the washing machine and clothes line survived.

Rita hurt other friends.