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Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:26 pm to udtiger
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As we approach 20 years since Katrina, a reminder that it wasn't just New Orleans
Yep. Transplants screwed up many places throughout the south.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:29 pm to udtiger
The hurricane actually hit Mississippi
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:31 pm to udtiger
What happened in Mississippi was pretty much expected.. So they were more experienced with handling the recovery and getting started. What happened in New Orleans was unexpected.. And obviously had no preparation or plan in place... And it didn't help having Kathleen "I'll get back to you" Blanco calling the shots..
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:31 pm to udtiger
Lost everything…doesn’t mean a thing.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:32 pm to tigeraddict
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It was a day or so later the walls failed.
Agree with your first sentence. But this just isn't true.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:33 pm to Gulf Coast Tiger
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The hurricane actually hit Mississippi
First landfall after it crossed the FL peninsula was in Louisiana. But in terms of who eventually took the brunt of the eye you are basically correct.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:35 pm to tigeraddict
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Remember initially there was no flooding in NO just a lot of blown out windows. It was a day or so later the walls failed.
The frick. 9th ward was flooded by 7:45 am. Both sides of the industrial canal broke by 8:30 am. London Avenue Canal broke at 9:30 am. 17th Street Canal broke at 11:50 am.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:35 pm to tigeraddict
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. It was a day or so later the walls failed
People really need to refresh their timeline. The levees broke before 6am day of.
Shockingly, the Hulu documentary is filled with shitty accounts.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:36 pm to tigeraddict
This is true, although the walls actually started failing the morning of the storm but it didn't become a news story until later in the afternoon.
I was watching NBC from my evacuation point, and in the morning Brian Williams was reporting from the MS river floodgates and saying Nola had dodged a bullet.
I was watching NBC from my evacuation point, and in the morning Brian Williams was reporting from the MS river floodgates and saying Nola had dodged a bullet.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:38 pm to The Boat
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Remember initially there was no flooding in NO just a lot of blown out windows. It was a day or so later the walls failed.
The frick. 9th ward was flooded by 7:45 am. Both sides of the industrial canal broke by 8:30 am. London Avenue Canal broke at 9:30 am. 17th Street Canal broke at 11:50 am.
I recall news reports (and Weather Channel) late morning talking about how areas were flooding, but they didn't have any idea where the water was coming from.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:38 pm to The Boat
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The frick. 9th ward was flooded by 7:45 am. Both sides of the industrial canal broke by 8:30 am. London Avenue Canal broke at 9:30 am. 17th Street Canal broke at 11:50 am.
Correct. I actually thought the 17th Street Canal break was earlier as well.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:45 pm to udtiger
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I am speaking to the actual destruction/impact of the storm itself and bringing attention to the fact that easily 90% of national coverage (to the extent there is any) will be about NO.
And just imagine if the strength had held and not dropped off to a strong Cat 3 at the last minute...
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:46 pm to SloaneRanger
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First landfall after it crossed the FL peninsula was in Louisiana. But in terms of who eventually took the brunt of the eye you are basically correct.
Final landfall was at Little Lake. So the first town east of that was Pearlington and they were ground zero.
43/603 was still in bad shape a year later.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:48 pm to Tall Tiger
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was watching NBC from my evacuation point, and in the morning Brian Williams was reporting from the MS river floodgates and saying Nola had dodged a bullet.
I knew it didn't dodge the bullet because of the path. Hurricane just east of the city will pretty much pick up the lake and drop it on the city.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:52 pm to fightin tigers
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Shockingly, the Hulu documentary is filled with shitty accounts.
Was really disappointed with that.
It was only told from one perspective and Katrina was a generational event for people of all backgrounds on the gulf coast and to do it justice it needed to be explained as such.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:52 pm to Gulf Coast Tiger
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The hurricane actually hit Mississippi
The first Gulf landfall was near Buras, LA and then the final landfall was schmack dab on the Louisiana/Mississippi border
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:53 pm to tigeraddict
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Had the flood walls not failed, Katrina would have been a MS hurricane. Remember initially there was no flooding in NO just a lot of blown out windows. It was a day or so later the walls failed.
Slidell and St. Bernard Parish were both hit pretty damn hard. The latter had 30-foot storm surge in some areas and at least one nursing home saw multiple residents drown or die because the owners were too short-sighted to evacuate.
There's more to Louisiana than New Orleans.
I'm saying this as someone who had family in Chalmette, Kenner, and Bay St. Louis at the time. It was bad all around, and areas like Pass Christian and Diamondhead were certainly devastated as well. So were Meraux, Violet, and other places.
I don't think it's really necessary to "claim" Hurricane Katrina.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:54 pm to tigeraddict
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Remember initially there was no flooding in NO just a lot of blown out windows. It was a day or so later the walls failed.
Uhhhh...no.
I was awake and alert (although not particularly enthusiastic) when the eye of the storm passed over in the 0600 to 0830 or so range and, yes, initially we thought the city was relatively spared. What we didn't know was that the overtopping and levee breaches were happening all over. I actually bedded down around 0900 as I was running on about 6 hours of sleep over the prior 72. Around 1100 or so, I woke up to the sound of someone whispering, "If you need to use the latrine, go down the stairwell until you get to the flooded part."
I sat up, quietly cursed and went back to work. The "walls" as you say, failed almost immediately. In fact, as the storm was coming ashore there were some overtopping and failure that merely worsened and spread as the surge stacked. (Thank you MR-GO and ACE!)
This post was edited on 8/10/25 at 1:00 pm
Posted on 8/10/25 at 12:54 pm to The Boat
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London Avenue Canal broke at 9:30 am
You timeline is exactly right.. London avenue is the one that affected me the most... I was at work, in New Orleans, for the storm... I was able to contact a neighbor at exactly 9:30 am to get an update of Gentilly.. Trees were down.. a hole in my roof and about a foot or more of water in the street.. pretty normal for the water... I wasn't able to contact him after that.. I didn't see him for a few years until I ran into him in the warehouse district about 4 years later.. He said that after we hung up ,about 9:40 am, the water started rising incredibly fast. He and his dog had to swim across the street to the only 2 story house in the neighborhood... There was 12 feet of water...
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