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re: 14 years ago today
Posted on 8/29/19 at 9:50 am to atrain5
Posted on 8/29/19 at 9:50 am to atrain5
It was quite unsettling for the first few days not knowing if our house and flooded. There were so many rumors floating around and so much was changing so fast. After about day three, one of the neighbors had gotten word back to a family member that we were dry.
It was painful to watch so many people that I cared about go through so much pain and suffering. One thing I will never forget was the guy from Chalmette who was staying as part of our larger group at one of the casino hotels in north Mississippi who couldn't find out any information about his mom for a good two days. She had been forced to stay in St. Bernard for her job.
She ended up getting put on a boat and sent up the river to Exxon in Baton Rouge, but there was a real concern for a while that she had died.
I will never ever in my life forget the smell of the fridge and freezers full of rotting meat and seafood when we cleaned the first few houses. After that, the duct tape would come out and those fckers would be sealed up and hauled to the street with the quickness at any other house we helped out with.
It was painful to watch so many people that I cared about go through so much pain and suffering. One thing I will never forget was the guy from Chalmette who was staying as part of our larger group at one of the casino hotels in north Mississippi who couldn't find out any information about his mom for a good two days. She had been forced to stay in St. Bernard for her job.
She ended up getting put on a boat and sent up the river to Exxon in Baton Rouge, but there was a real concern for a while that she had died.
I will never ever in my life forget the smell of the fridge and freezers full of rotting meat and seafood when we cleaned the first few houses. After that, the duct tape would come out and those fckers would be sealed up and hauled to the street with the quickness at any other house we helped out with.
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 12:23 pm to notiger1997
I was a senior at LSU at the time and will never forget what it did to Baton Rouge...
-cell phone towers being down + so many people were in BR caused cell phones to work very sporadically. We quickly realized texting worked better than calls (texting wasnt all that big back then)
- track and field made into a helipad and PMAC into a triage Reveille Link
- I lived at Campus Apartments on West Chimes near the old softball field. Helicopters were overhead constantly. We had people walking around at all hours of night- a couple of us stayed up on guard after all the looting and crime stories that were being spread
- not knowing if your classes were going to be cancelled from missing so many days and if LSU could absorb the extra students. I know many seniors who were concerned about graduating on time due to Katrina.
- the traffic... oh the traffic.
Obviously, this is nothing in comparison to what happened in New Orleans and the Mississippi coast, but it really did change Baton Rouge too.
-cell phone towers being down + so many people were in BR caused cell phones to work very sporadically. We quickly realized texting worked better than calls (texting wasnt all that big back then)
- track and field made into a helipad and PMAC into a triage Reveille Link
- I lived at Campus Apartments on West Chimes near the old softball field. Helicopters were overhead constantly. We had people walking around at all hours of night- a couple of us stayed up on guard after all the looting and crime stories that were being spread
- not knowing if your classes were going to be cancelled from missing so many days and if LSU could absorb the extra students. I know many seniors who were concerned about graduating on time due to Katrina.
- the traffic... oh the traffic.
Obviously, this is nothing in comparison to what happened in New Orleans and the Mississippi coast, but it really did change Baton Rouge too.
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