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re: Craziest/Shadiest/Scariest thing you saw in Katrina Aftermath
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:38 pm to IHuntdux
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:38 pm to IHuntdux
The selfishness of people...not talking looting. POS I worked with called me crying that he was asked to work for Katrina. Grown man crying and pleading with me to work for him. The bosses called me in because he was such a pussy and was screwing stuff up. People who didn't work during Katrina were still paid full salary (5 weeks). Jump forward to a month after..still working out of Baton Rouge. The bosses called the guy to show up at the main building in New Orleans to help clean up. He freaking complained and asked why don't they have me come in to clean up. I lost my house and didn't even have a place to stay in New Orleans... 
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Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:39 pm to IHuntdux
I met a Australian couple after we evacuated.
They had been in the dome for three days.
I thought I saw shite covering it (dead bodies, guns etc) but the shite they described made me question humanity for the first time in my life.
And they stunk like they had been underground for a week. The smell of death was all over them.
They had been in the dome for three days.
I thought I saw shite covering it (dead bodies, guns etc) but the shite they described made me question humanity for the first time in my life.
And they stunk like they had been underground for a week. The smell of death was all over them.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:40 pm to IHuntdux
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This post was edited on 8/31/18 at 8:53 pm
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:41 pm to IHuntdux
Scariest - watching two people die in PMAC/Fieldhouse as a 19 year old.
Craziest - meeting a private jet from my Dad’s corporate HQ to pickup $50k in cash for employees since banking access/payroll at the local/regional banks were down.
Craziest - meeting a private jet from my Dad’s corporate HQ to pickup $50k in cash for employees since banking access/payroll at the local/regional banks were down.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:41 pm to danfraz
From what Ive heard of that place, I think I probably would have taken my chances out on the street in the elements.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:41 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Meeting my new Chalmetian neighbors.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:42 pm to IHuntdux
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:42 pm to IHuntdux
Two swat guys coming out of racetrac station in Laplace armed to the teeth. I assume they were heading back to the city. They letterally looked like they walked out of Afghanistan.
ETA also once I was able to go back into the city weeks later the front door of every pharmacy was absolutely annihilated.
ETA also once I was able to go back into the city weeks later the front door of every pharmacy was absolutely annihilated.
This post was edited on 8/29/18 at 1:44 pm
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:43 pm to IHuntdux
Lots of crazy that we heard about.
The scariest, though, is a friend of ours who stayed uptown through the storm and for the following week until forced to evacuate. He hasn't been the same ever since. Other friends died at much younger ages than we would have expected them to.
All we could do up here was be an open house. For two + months, I had no leftovers at all. And the washing machine and clothes line survived.
Rita hurt other friends.
The scariest, though, is a friend of ours who stayed uptown through the storm and for the following week until forced to evacuate. He hasn't been the same ever since. Other friends died at much younger ages than we would have expected them to.
All we could do up here was be an open house. For two + months, I had no leftovers at all. And the washing machine and clothes line survived.
Rita hurt other friends.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:45 pm to IHuntdux
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From what Ive heard of that place, I think I probably would have taken my chances out on the street in the elements.
They took notes. Detailed. It didn't matter, you could see and smell what they had been through.
They were tough arse Aussies and had been reduced to quivering Jello basically
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:46 pm to jbgleason
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some enterprising individuals used a truck and chain to pull out of the ground and steal all of the detached ATM's at their branches
I would fire whoever thought it was a good idea to leave these ATMs stocked full of cash knowing power was likely going out.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:47 pm to baldona
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Pretty sure a bank would have battery/ generator back up? It’s not the old school movies where you can cut the power and the security system goes down right?
You think every bank branch has a diesel generator to power the branch for days at a time? Nope. I would imagine the main alarm will run on batteries for a period but not for days and certainly not all the cameras and outside systems. Remember that these were detached ATM's. And not only land lines but cell service was down as well. No way for the system, even if powered, to notify anyone.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:47 pm to danfraz
Dafraz spill the beans. What did they see? I’m genuinely curious because as someone who watched the news very closely I thought I knew the horror of what happened
This post was edited on 8/29/18 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:49 pm to baldona
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Pretty sure a bank would have battery/ generator back up? It’s not the old school movies where you can cut the power and the security system goes down right?
Just curious my man, but even if they did where would they most likely put a generator? On the ground, and what happens when huge amounts of waist deep & even deeper flood water comes into contact with an electrical machine? Auburn fan fits.
This post was edited on 8/29/18 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:49 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Ive heard from several people that rapes were some of the milder things taking place in there.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:49 pm to IHuntdux
Having to eat those nasty arse Hotdogs
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:53 pm to IHuntdux
Yeah I’ve heard those rumors too. But it’s always from someone who heard from someone who heard from someone who is here.
I never new anyone who stayed in the sole or convention center or anyone who met anyone who stayed in the dome or convention center
I never new anyone who stayed in the sole or convention center or anyone who met anyone who stayed in the dome or convention center
Posted on 8/29/18 at 1:54 pm to IHuntdux
Talked to one of the guards at the Convention Center:
"People were pretty well behaved during the storm. Then it ended and all the young dudes left and then they came back with liquor and condoms. I thought to myself, oh shite."
Guy was stone serious.
"People were pretty well behaved during the storm. Then it ended and all the young dudes left and then they came back with liquor and condoms. I thought to myself, oh shite."
Guy was stone serious.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 2:00 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Cleaning up churches in the 7th Ward immediately after they let people back in. It looked like a nuclear bomb exploded
Opening an old abondoned Winn Dixie as a relief supply warehouse and seeing it filled to capacity in little over 2 days
Talking to evacuees sharing hotel rooms and sleeping in shifts. Some of them had 10-15 people sharing one room.
Handing supplies through a fence to evacuees at Lamar Dixon
Watching blackhawks takeoff and land at schools
The miles long convoy lead by General Honore was a sight to behold
Opening an old abondoned Winn Dixie as a relief supply warehouse and seeing it filled to capacity in little over 2 days
Talking to evacuees sharing hotel rooms and sleeping in shifts. Some of them had 10-15 people sharing one room.
Handing supplies through a fence to evacuees at Lamar Dixon
Watching blackhawks takeoff and land at schools
The miles long convoy lead by General Honore was a sight to behold
Posted on 8/29/18 at 2:04 pm to IHuntdux
A documentary on Katrina refugees. They interviewed people in a shelter in Alexandria. One of them was a guy I went to middle school with. He had never been within a hundred miles of New Orleans.
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