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Posted on 8/11/25 at 8:08 am to udtiger
Exactly. And the land mass has built back strong, while some areas of NO are still in ruin and still whine about Katrina.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 8:19 am to Dixie2023
The first Mardi Grad after Katrina was great! If you know what I mean.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 8:23 am to pbro62
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Baton Rouge
Permanently altered.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 8:24 am to UptownJoeBrown
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The first Mardi Grad after Katrina was great! If you know what I mean.
bc the parades didnt have any bands?
Posted on 8/11/25 at 8:34 am to profdillweed
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bc the parades didnt have any bands?
Posted on 8/11/25 at 8:44 am to UptownJoeBrown
Took a junket to Laughlin Nevada right after Katrina hit. Flew out of Shreveport Texas and the people on the plane from Texas and Arkansas were telling us hope we were alright. I said we missed it thankfully, just got some wind and rain. A couple of weeks later, Rita smashed us.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 9:15 am to The Boat
But wasn’t it the levy breach that caused the flooding? A federal flooding, not Katrina.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 9:19 am to udtiger
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South Mississippi got it much worse.
Utter bullshite. Tell that to the people in St Bernard and Plaquemines parishs.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 9:20 am to Aubie Spr96
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Serious question: If New Orleans exported a lot of its culture post Katrina and ruined places like Houston and BR, how did that not also make New Orleans better?
It's paradoxical as hell, I'll grant you that.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 9:28 am to Dizz
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The levees being blowing up is all the rage now.
Gen Z is just now learning about Katrina and this is what they’re running with.
There’s also the theory that it was done on purpose to wash the black folks out the city, because apparently Lakeview, Chalmette, etc. went unscathed.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 9:35 am to udtiger
South Mississippi is highly elevated. Go 10 miles off the coat and you hit 100 ft elevation. Flooding was the biggest part of Katrina, which coastal MS isn't low elevation enough to get, it was just wind there.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 9:39 am to Sayre
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Utter bullshite. Tell that to the people in St Bernard and Plaquemines parishs.
Most of south LA/MS got fricked. Not sure why this has to always turn into a pissing match as to who had it worst.
There was also crime in MS. Once they started letting property owners back in we found our boat in the woods behind Diamondhead Marina. Hull was done but we wanted to try and salvage the engines. Came back the next day with the necessary tools/muscle and someone had beaten us to the punch.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 10:57 am to Saunson69
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South Mississippi is highly elevated
For anyone familiar with Diamondhead, consider the elevation change from the I-10 toward the Yacht Club...Katrina put a decent sized boat in the trees close enough to the interstate that it was clearly visible and several feet up into the canopy.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 11:10 am to Saunson69
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Flooding was the biggest part of Katrina, which coastal MS isn't low elevation enough to get, it was just wind there.
That, and 25ft.+ of water.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 11:31 am to Aubie Spr96
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Serious question: If New Orleans exported a lot of its culture post Katrina and ruined places like Houston and BR, how did that not also make New Orleans better?
Because patient zero was already terminal.
This post was edited on 8/11/25 at 11:32 am
Posted on 8/11/25 at 11:41 am to udtiger
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As we approach 20 years since Katrina, a reminder that it wasn't just New Orleansby udtiger
South Mississippi got it much worse.
People forget about plaquemines parish getting obliterated as well
Doesn’t make for quite the storylines as MS and NOLA though. Oh well
Posted on 8/11/25 at 11:52 am to udtiger
If there was anything positive that came out of the Katrina aftermath, it was you didn't have to tell the folks in SWLA to get the hell out of Dodge when Rita showed up a few weeks later.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 12:43 pm to TheBaker
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Mississippi did get hammered no doubt. What they didn’t deal with is the viscous crime and chaos that ensued. A rape in the superdome, that rapist being caught and legitimately thrown off of the GNO bridge by the good guys (100% fact I was there in uniform), the shootout at a nearby mall…then a legendary sheriff saying to light it because the suspects were in one wi g of the mall and couldn’t get out. Another fact. A spec ops platoon being stranded and forgotten in NO East to the point they had to kill a deer, skin it, then cook it to get by. The good guys having to put people down in NO that were shooting at helicopters dropping off supplies. See it, drop them, and ask no questions. Sniper style.
* I can confirm that there was an incident at the Oakwood Mall on the westbank that involved a group of people looting stores in the mall and exchanged gunshots with multilpe JPSO deputies and then a fire was lit. I do not know who lit the fire but the fire was 100% real as was the shootout.
*Unless there was more than 1 incident involving a deer..lol.
what I can confirm is there was a group of NOPD swat guys who killed a deer in the Michoud area and brought it back to the westbank where they were stationed, skinned it and cooked it as they were tired of canned food and MRE's, they were not stranded or forgotten about..simply a meat run
*as far as the helicopters were concerned, the only incident I can confirm is there was an individual who was shooting at a helicopter from one of the buildings across the street from the NOPD's 1st district station and got popped ..I did hear of numerous incidents involving helicopters being shot at, cannot confirm ith happened tho
* not going to touch on anything that happened on the GNO as I cannot confirm what did or didnt happen with that
This post was edited on 8/11/25 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 8/11/25 at 1:40 pm to Traveler
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it was you didn't have to tell the folks in SWLA to get the hell out of Dodge when Rita showed up a few weeks later.
True, but the same applied to Houston when for several days it was heading straight for Houston before it went east. I don't believe an evacuation the likes of that had ever been seen before of will ever be seen again. I know people gone for 24 hours who barely got 60 miles out of town. We stayed at home. In fact, in Cypress, I will always stay at home and would recommend it for everyone who doesn't have babies, extremely small children, elderly, or folks with health problems. There were elderly and nursing home evacuees that died during a useless evacuation.
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