re: Craziest/Shadiest/Scariest thing you saw in Katrina Aftermath

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brother (who was in NOPD) and I at the time got back in the city about 6-7 days after.

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So your brother was one of those guys that abandoned his post and took off then stayed away for a week? Nice.

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Even though I was out of town, Paul Accardo’s death was the first I could put a face to...was a real shame.

This is the prevailing suburb image from the storm that sticks out:

Got emails months after w/ this photo and the subject line “Why looting didn’t happen after Rita”

That’s the corner of Jefferson Hwy & Citrus Rd. in River Ridge, blocks from where I grew up.

And, that place wasn't like war.......I've seen war, and New Orleans wasnt anything but a shitty city that experienced a horrible natural disaster, populated by idiots too stupid to survive on their own for less than a week, without the government wiping their arse and powdering their nose.

Not long after the storm, hustler club ran on generators and sold beer out of ice chests. So many workers and soo much money.

Driving into town was creepy AF, dark, no street lights. Always got stopped by national guard to see where we were going.

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SAAB

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Can't blame the guy

stupid doctor, everyone knows that's what bayou st john is for

I live in Ocean Springs, MS. I evacuated to Panama City for Katrina but my dumbass thought I needed to get back as soon as possible so I drove back the next day. My house was fine except we were without power for 10 days. Things that really stuck out to me were having to wait in line at gas stations for hours (when word was spread that a gas station actually had gas again) and the station being overseen by National Guard with automatic rifles. That was sobering. And being limited to $20 worth of gas, which wasn't much when gas prices were over $3 at the time. And by the time I got to the pump it had been dropped down to $10 max. We also had to park our cars in the drive way inches a part to keep people from coming at night and syphoning the gas from our tanks.

And I actually enjoyed the MRE's that were being handed out. And they were handing out cases of canned water...from Anheuser Busch.

I also did low-level coast line flights all across MS and LA looking for dead marine mammals (part of my job) and seeing how the MS coast looked like boxes of matches had just been dropped everywhere...literally nothing was standing near the beach. Only dead animals I actually saw were quite a few floating cows in the MS River delta.

I also had to do some dolphin work from small boats in Gulfport not long after the storm and there were floating bags of rotten chicken everywhere.

I'm not sure if they also came, but there was 100% an Israeli contractor brought in for Audubon Place. I know someone who was part of their hiring. They didn't have enough people readily available, so he also called Blackwater to do other stuff in the CBD.


Good story about one of my gf's best friends:

He was a counselor at a summer camp that tried to hire a diverse group of people. The camp ended, and he and two other counselors (one from London, and the other from Japan IIRC) were just hanging out looking for stuff to do before they had to go back home. He decided to take them to his house on the MS coast before the hurricane so they could see some of what a hurricane was. They planned on leaving before SHTF. This house is actually on Beach Rd.

They hung out that night, got drunk, slept in the next day, and woke up to waves coming up through the floor of his house. He was glad the other guys were there, as he needed help putting stuff on sofas and whatnot. They got that done, and the water kept coming up and up, until it was waste-deep in the house. All of the front windows had blown out by then.

At that point, they decided they needed to get out of the one-story house they were in. The foreigners were shitting their pants, and gf's buddy had to figure out what to do. Once they stepped out of the raised house, shite was blowing everywhere, and the water was chest-deep. So, he decided they should move to one of the big oak trees behind the house.

All three of those guys spent the rest of Katrina getting in and out of that tree, because they were too tired from holding on.

Water was out that night, they slept in the wet house, that had moved 30ft back, and then walked out the next morning