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re: 20 years ago - I was sent to NO for Katrina - AMA
Posted on 8/31/25 at 7:56 pm to CitizenK
Posted on 8/31/25 at 7:56 pm to CitizenK
a good friend of mine was av LA Rep during katrina, a few weeks after they did an official tour of the 9th and said it was surreal
no people, miles of devastation and no birds anywhere. he said the silence was spooky. some of the women became so unnerved by the houses marked by first responders with numbers of dead recoverd they cut the trip short
no people, miles of devastation and no birds anywhere. he said the silence was spooky. some of the women became so unnerved by the houses marked by first responders with numbers of dead recoverd they cut the trip short
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Posted on 8/31/25 at 8:38 pm to LSUTigerMN
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ea it was later, initially they wouldn't let us go to New Orleans, unless assigned. One night a couple volunteers came back to the shelter who were assigned, law enforcement volunteers, and were immediately referred to mental health. Probably second week in September, rumor was they were at one of the temp morgues, one lady came back ghost white and clearly f'd up. I'll never forget her face.
Can you explain this little more clearly? Sounds interesting but makes zero sense to me.
Posted on 8/31/25 at 8:49 pm to CitizenK
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His son, Rick, fresh out of college had come down to oversee and maintain them. He was shot at by snipers every single day at dusk as he commuted to a hotel in Hammond.
Those snipers must have been terrible. Missed him every single day. Did they even hit his vehicle?
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:38 am to notiger1997
This a gated subdivision in the Tulane area? It was mentioned in the book. I think the police got pissy when they guards wouldn't let them in the subdivision. I may be wrong about all that.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 12:36 pm to holmesbr
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This a gated subdivision in the Tulane area? It was mentioned in the book. I think the police got pissy when they guards wouldn't let them in the subdivision.
It’s one street that has a guard up front and the place is indeed gated off.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 3:44 pm to Ace Midnight
How many “whatchyall gon do for us?” demands did you get?
Posted on 9/1/25 at 5:43 pm to Twenty 49
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hose snipers must have been terrible. Missed him every single day. Did they even hit his vehicle?
They shot at him from afar when he was t the port, not in his vehicle.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 7:49 pm to Lou Loomis
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How many “whatchyall gon do for us?” demands did you get?
Other than the rowdy public demonstration that only lasted about an hour or so, none.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 2:53 pm to profdillweed
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Anyone know where I can send these tapes to be converted to digital?
Did you get this done?
Posted on 11/2/25 at 2:59 pm to profdillweed
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I have some camcorder videos that I need to covert to digital and I’ll show you some real life amateur footage from the day after the water went down and we were able to get into the city and even some footage from Johnny Whites. This footage was taken on or around Sept 13th
Anyone know where I can send these tapes to be converted to digital?
I'm interested if you've found a place. I'd wanna see this.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 7:05 pm to Ace Midnight
I ran the medical helicopter operation starting early Tuesday morning and we had evacuated all hospitals by Friday. Mid morning Thursday we were tasked with flying to the Superdome to evac our staff because it had become to unruly.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 7:37 pm to Boston911
I was in the Pentagon when Katrina hit and served on the Crisis Action Team for a bit.
Most of my family were on the Westbank and came through with minimal damage other than power loss.
The only family members I had with a generator at that point was my uncle/godfather and his partner who lived out by Nine Mile Point.
I had some interesting conversations with him over the two to three weeks following.
Besides discussions about neighborhood defense organization and collecting ice, water, and MREs. The conversation that still makes me laugh was as follows:
"Where you at, Uncle?"
"Hello Colonel"
"You get power yet?"
"We got it a couple of hours ago, got the house opened up and all the air-conditioning running. Then your Uncle Jimmy went to his smoking room to get away from me."
(laughing my rear end off) "You old married couple you!"
Note: they were together for nearly 50 years ending with their deaths a few years later.
Most of my family were on the Westbank and came through with minimal damage other than power loss.
The only family members I had with a generator at that point was my uncle/godfather and his partner who lived out by Nine Mile Point.
I had some interesting conversations with him over the two to three weeks following.
Besides discussions about neighborhood defense organization and collecting ice, water, and MREs. The conversation that still makes me laugh was as follows:
"Where you at, Uncle?"
"Hello Colonel"
"You get power yet?"
"We got it a couple of hours ago, got the house opened up and all the air-conditioning running. Then your Uncle Jimmy went to his smoking room to get away from me."
(laughing my rear end off) "You old married couple you!"
Note: they were together for nearly 50 years ending with their deaths a few years later.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 7:45 pm to Ace Midnight
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To be fair, the feds could have and likely did have some degree of armed contractor support, especially September and October. I just can't speak to it.
Blackwater was indeed contracted by FEMA to support the early recovery efforts. I worked with some in BR starting around October. They would rotate in to NO and some had been assigned there prior to being in BR.
I can’t tell you exactly what they were up to in NO but from what they told me (that seemed legit and not the exaggerated stories they sometimes told) they were in a situation that none of them wanted to be in. It’s one thing to be deployed to a war zone and have to be prepared to take a life. It’s another when it’s in your own country and it’s your fellow citizens. Some of them seemed pretty spooked by the experience.
As for Audubon- I don’t know if this is accurate, but the story I heard was that it was an group of former Israeli special forces that was hired to protect the neighborhood.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 12:25 am to holmesbr
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Are the stories in the book "The Great Gun Grab" true?
Not sure about that book, but I had personal experience.
Without going into too much detail, here are a few resources.
1. A Wikipedia entry about a law which was passed to prevent a recurrence of this type of event during future disasters:
Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act of 2006
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Chief of Police Eddie Compass ordered police and National Guard units to confiscate firearms from civilians who remained in the area.
The National Rifle Association and Second Amendment Foundation filed a lawsuit against the city of New Orleans to place an emergency injunction forbidding such seizures from continuing. A temporary restraining order was granted September 23, 2005.[1]
The Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act of 2006 (H.R.5013, S.2599) was a bill introduced March 28, 2006 by Republican Congressman Bobby Jindal in the House and on April 7, 2006 by Republican Senator David Vitter in the Senate.[2] On August 4, 2006, it was referred to committee.
On July 12, 2006 Senator Vitter proposed Senate Amendment 4615 (the Vitter Amendment) to Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007 (H.R. 5441), to prohibit the confiscation of firearms during an emergency or major disaster if the possession of such firearms is not prohibited under Federal or State law.[3] The proposed amendment was subsequently modified to contain the provisions of the Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act of 2006. However, the temporary surrender of a firearm could be required "as a condition for entry into any mode of transportation used for rescue or evacuation".
2. And also reference the ruling from Judge Zainey of the Eastern District of Louisiana on this point. Sorry to not be able to copy and paste text, but the document is a photocopy and best demonstrates the point. Just not easily posted:
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LINK
Federal Court Order halting gun seizures and ordering return of seized guns.
It is a bit hard to deny that this gun grabbing practice took place with over 700 guns taken in NOLA.
We need to demand respect for our rights from our leaders and enforcers at all levels of government. Many passed. But sadly, some failed.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 3:26 pm to RougeDawg
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LTG Honore sitting around looking at his Blackberry only to get up when reporters came around for a sound bite.
I watched the Katrina documentary directed by Spike Lee on Netflix. I imagine a LOT of the things LTG Honore did and said was totally done for the cameras.
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