re: What's the craziest thing you saw or heard about during Katrina?

I’ve posted this many times, during Katrina I was at the dome. There were no snipers on the roof, very few gunshots heard. When we went out for rescue, one of the areas was 9th ward, never heard gunshots. The few we did hear in other areas were people trying to get our attention

ETA: I got there a day or 2, maybe even 3, after the hurricane, don’t remember exactly. I never saw snipers and nobody ever brought anything like that to my attention and I talked to several folks that were there within a day of the hurricane

House, slab and all in the middle of the street.

Katrinicans flocked to Texas and the crime rate went up in all areas

Aaron Broussard in WWL radio being interview by Jake Dellovia, Vince Marinello, and the actor (whose name escapes me) when they asked him about Jefferson Parish. Broussard said he wrote on toilet paper while sitting on the toilet Jefferson Parish’s new disaster recovery plan call “Operation Snow Storm”.

He then goes off and starts rambling on about Nietzsche and Gandhi. Then goes off the reservation even further by admitting he was carrying his feces in a paper bag for some unknown reason.

He hangs up the phone and Dellevea says to Marinello who did tBroussard sound like in their disbelief and then all three said Bobby Hebert.

I wish that broadcast could be found as it is awesome.

My house at the time was in Slidell, so I’m sure others saw much crazier stuff than me.

I remember Hammond was like a frontier town. Stopped there to eat a few times and the people in restaurants were as filthy and exhausted as me.

I went to the Sugar Bowl in January of 2007, and that was my first time back in the city for a while. The mall across the street from the dome still had some boarded up windows, caked dirt and mannequin parts on the floors, and dead plants in big planters. All this 16 months after the storm and in full view of a visiting crowd for the game.

Beer Looter Guy

Other than the general destruction all around, and seeing military helicopters and National Guard all of the time, I didn't see anything too crazy. Some things that stand out:

About three or four days after the storm, my brother-in-law and I were going on a grocery run in Baton Rouge to get some things for a family. Traffic was horrible. We were at a red light at an intersection, and see a NYPD car pass by. That was something you didn't see every day.

At the time, I was working in an office building across from Hammond Airport. We got power back at work about 10 days after the storm, and employees started trickling back in from wherever they had evacuated to. A couple of days after returning to work, the Army shows up and pretty much takes the building over. If I recall correctly, the were from Fort Hood. Anyway, we ended up sharing office space with them for a couple of months. They were flying in an out of New Orleans from the airport. We got to know them pretty well, and had a bbq for them before they left.

I went down highway 90 through Biloxi/Gulfport to Pensacola the day after they opened the highway back up. Lord God almighty I never thought I'd see such destruction with my own eyes.

Seeing the National guard patrolling and checking entry into an affluent neighborhood while the one across the street was left for the locals to defend from looting. It was in Harvey. The locals took care of it quite well. It left an impression on me for obvious reasons though.

Not during but people swear that the Florida parishes and Br were so much nicer and cleaner before Katrina.

The dead people inside MSY airport. Overfilled garbaged dumpsters outside my office underneath concourse C. The horrible smell in the air driving home from Kenner to Gonzales.