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Hurricane Betsy - 54 years ago today...
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:28 pm
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Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:32 pm to NorthEndZone
Supposedly blew part of the roof off the BRGeneral
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:32 pm to NorthEndZone
The original axe in the attic hurricane.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:33 pm to NorthEndZone
I remember this well. I had just turned 4, but this is something that just stuck in my mind. Our dog (who showed up at our house during Hurricane Hilda the year before) was the only living thing in our house that actually got any sleep during the ordeal.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:33 pm to The Boat
Kids today can't read this
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:34 pm to arseinclarse
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:35 pm to NorthEndZone
I remember Betsy. The eye passed directly over us when I was a kid. Inside huddled up then dead calm and sunlight went outside to check it out, then all hell breaking loose again.
Quite an experience for anyone, but especially a young kid.
Quite an experience for anyone, but especially a young kid.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:36 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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I remember this well. I had just turned 4
We're the same age. I was 4 1/2, lived in the 9th Ward, and was woken up by my parents to a flooded house. We spent the night in the attic and the next couple of days on the 2nd floor of St. Mary of the Angels.
This post was edited on 9/9/19 at 1:37 pm
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:36 pm to NorthEndZone
My gramps has hella Betsy stories
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:38 pm to TigerGman
Betsy made landfall at night
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:39 pm to NorthEndZone
Looks like New Orleans is getting fricked with a layered dick.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:40 pm to The Boat
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Betsy made landfall at night
Thanks for ruining my greatest childhood memory...
Damn, wonder which one it was then?
ETA: I was in Lafayette and I see the storm eye wall didn't exit N.O. till 4.am.
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The northern and western eyewalls covered Southeast Louisiana and the New Orleans area from about 8 pm until 4 am the next morning.
Never mind. I give up.
This post was edited on 9/9/19 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:41 pm to NorthEndZone
I was 7. My little brother was born three days prior to the storm. Mom and him were in the hospital. My Dad went get them the next day in a pirouge. No power for weeks. One man in the neighborhood had a generator and would bring us a bowl of ice cubes each day. One pitcher of ice water and each person got one glass full. A bowl because plastic bags were not common. Generators were not either. This was before the Chinese made them and they became affordable.
This post was edited on 9/9/19 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:43 pm to TigerGman
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The eye passed directly over us when I was a kid. Inside huddled up then dead calm and sunlight went outside to check it out, then all hell breaking loose again.
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I remember Betsy
Do you?
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:45 pm to udtiger
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Supposedly blew part of the roof off the BRGeneral
definitely blew part of the roof off of our house in nola. I still remember seeing rain coming in through the hole.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:48 pm to TigerGman
Was the hurricane you’re thinking of in the 1960s? And you were in Lafayette?
This post was edited on 9/9/19 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:51 pm to NorthEndZone
I believe Betsy sank a barge in the Mississippi that was loaded with chlorine to add to the damage already done by the storm.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:51 pm to parrotdr
quote:After the storm a lady named Aurelia from the Ninth Ward would come help my Momma. She lived down the the street from Fats Domino. She would bring me his records and cook Banana Fritters for me. I loved Aurelia.
lived in the 9th Ward...
This post was edited on 9/9/19 at 1:55 pm
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:52 pm to TDsngumbo
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Was the hurricane you’re thinking of in the 1950s? And you were in Lafayette?
I'm looking at historical tracks--looks like it was Edith in 1971.
This post was edited on 9/9/19 at 2:00 pm
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:53 pm to NorthEndZone
I was just a few months old so I don't remember anything, just was told..My parents house was the meeting house for the cousins..I was told that the chandelier was swaying in the living room. Family talked about Betsy for years.
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