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21 Years Ago: Hurricane Katrina
Posted on 8/29/26 at 1:33 am
Posted on 8/29/26 at 1:33 am
Thinking tonight of the 1,392 that it would be their last day with us.
Additionally, I am thinking of all of you throughout Southern Louisiana and Southern Mississippi that experienced Katrina and then Rita and how that would bond us all forever.
It is why even though I have moved far away from the Gulf Coast that I like coming back to TigerDroppings to find a little bit of community here.
Like most of you, I can recall almost hour by hour the day before, day of, and the days immediately following (21 years later).
Additionally, I am thinking of all of you throughout Southern Louisiana and Southern Mississippi that experienced Katrina and then Rita and how that would bond us all forever.
It is why even though I have moved far away from the Gulf Coast that I like coming back to TigerDroppings to find a little bit of community here.
Like most of you, I can recall almost hour by hour the day before, day of, and the days immediately following (21 years later).
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Posted on 8/29/26 at 1:42 am to UncleLester
Wow I was 19 years old living in my first ever solo apartment in mid city. A baby born that day can now legally purchase booze that I couldn’t during that storm.
Posted on 8/29/26 at 1:42 am to UncleLester
I was a freshman at LSU and we had moved in just before. Kirby Smith, family in Lakeview though. Didn't seem that bad where we were at, but I was also shite faced drunk... It really started to sink in after the wind and rain was passed, and in the days, weeks, and months that followed.
I checked out mentally. Crazy to think about now though
I checked out mentally. Crazy to think about now though
Posted on 8/29/26 at 1:56 am to UncleLester
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1,392
It killed a lot more than that indirectly. My late SO believed it led to her parents' premature deaths. They were active and independent before Katrina. Afterward,they became increasingly frail. Within two years her mother was dead of cancer and her father was in assisted living.
Posted on 8/29/26 at 4:05 am to UncleLester
I was working as a RN at the time and we admitted a fellow who had evacuated but didn't have his medication, which led to him decompensating. When they evacuated his house, he got in one boat and his wife got in another. They lost each other at that point and had no idea about the status of the other. He was terrified that he might have lost her. I was able to do some detective work and figure out that his wife had family over in Texas, so I called that town's police department and ask them to go by and see if there was there. Within an hour she called him and we arranged for him to get to her. I will never forget the happiness in his voice when he got her on the phone. That storm wrecked so many lives it is unbelievable
This post was edited on 8/29/26 at 4:08 am
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