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re: Craziest/Shadiest/Scariest thing you saw in Katrina Aftermath
Posted on 8/29/19 at 3:13 pm to Ed Osteen
Posted on 8/29/19 at 3:13 pm to Ed Osteen
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It's amazing so many people heard first hand stories about snipers killing people
I always crack up at those stories. The US government did not send in snipers to pick off it's own citizens.
NOPD, on the other hand, definitely made some folks disappear in the immediate days after the water went down.
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 3:16 pm to MightyYat
Sarcasm or are you agreeing with me?
Posted on 8/29/19 at 3:20 pm to Oilfieldbiology
This, MS is the stepchild here. Coast was atomized.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 3:30 pm to USEyourCURDS
The craziest part about Katrina, to me, was the fact that ALL of the media attention went to the shithole (9th ward, etc) while the world completely ignored the fact that several communities in lower plaquemines were completely decimated
I mean, I get it and all, but it’s like our own state ignored us. I’d expect it from the national guys, but those people down there for the most part are great, hard working people who all had to completely start their lives over... quite a contrast from the government leaches who got all the media attention
I mean, I get it and all, but it’s like our own state ignored us. I’d expect it from the national guys, but those people down there for the most part are great, hard working people who all had to completely start their lives over... quite a contrast from the government leaches who got all the media attention
This post was edited on 8/29/19 at 3:52 pm
Posted on 8/29/19 at 3:42 pm to Mr. Hangover
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The craziest part about Katrina, to me, was the fact that ALL of the media attention went to the shithole (9th ward) while the world completely ignored the fact that several communities in lower plaquemines were completely decimated
I mean, I get it and all, but it’s like our own state ignored us. I’d expect it from the national guys, but those people down there for the most part are great, hard working people who all had to completely start their lives over... quite a contrast from the government leaches who got all the media attention
Yeah, St. Bernard was the same way. People have no clue where it even is on the map or that this is what it looked like right after.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 3:51 pm to MightyYat
Yep, St. Bernard too...
I have a shitton of pictures from Port Sulphur, Buras, Empire, etc from the days immiediately after Katrina on my computer at home.. the things that we saw down the road were absolutely horrific.. to this day, I still feel bad for those people
I have a shitton of pictures from Port Sulphur, Buras, Empire, etc from the days immiediately after Katrina on my computer at home.. the things that we saw down the road were absolutely horrific.. to this day, I still feel bad for those people
Posted on 8/29/19 at 4:11 pm to IHuntdux
Saw a guy on TV I had gone to middle school with being interviewed at a shelter in Ellick about his traumatic experience. To the best of my knowledge and belief he had never been within 100 miles of New Orleans.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 5:02 pm to IHuntdux
I live in Plaquemine, which Hwy 1 runs right through. The Sunday before the storm hit the traffic going North was insane. It looked like something in a movie.
There is always constant traffic but I have never seen it stop and go and on that day, I remember driving to a fantasy football draft and I had to get on the highway to go less than a quarter of a mile and it took me 40 mins to go a quarter of a mile.. Normally it takes me 10 mins to get to where I was going.
But after Katrina it had to be the traffic in Baton Rouge. After Katrina, on Sundays the traffic was bad.
As for as shadiest. When they were giving out money someone told me they passed by and saw a person out there who would be considered upper middle class. We went pass by again and there she was.. But there were other people who went get money, who didn't need it.. But evidently they were giving it out to everyone who was in line.
The thought to go wait in line to get money for food I lost didn't even cross my mind. Just because they were handing it out to anyone doesn't mean you should just go get it. Maybe it was a pride thing, but I thought government was really irresponsible the way they handled money after Katrina.
There is always constant traffic but I have never seen it stop and go and on that day, I remember driving to a fantasy football draft and I had to get on the highway to go less than a quarter of a mile and it took me 40 mins to go a quarter of a mile.. Normally it takes me 10 mins to get to where I was going.
But after Katrina it had to be the traffic in Baton Rouge. After Katrina, on Sundays the traffic was bad.
As for as shadiest. When they were giving out money someone told me they passed by and saw a person out there who would be considered upper middle class. We went pass by again and there she was.. But there were other people who went get money, who didn't need it.. But evidently they were giving it out to everyone who was in line.
The thought to go wait in line to get money for food I lost didn't even cross my mind. Just because they were handing it out to anyone doesn't mean you should just go get it. Maybe it was a pride thing, but I thought government was really irresponsible the way they handled money after Katrina.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 5:14 pm to IHuntdux
Getting told by a couple sheriff's and a trooper to keep a body count and throw anyone we shoot into the bayou in front of the area where we live. They would retrieve them when they get chance. There is one way in and out where we live and ourselves and the neighbors that stayed put a checkpoint at the entrance to check for looters.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 5:23 pm to OweO
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I live in Plaquemine, which Hwy 1 runs right through.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 5:31 pm to IHuntdux
It was a transgressive performance art piece. Guy called himself "Don Balloon Knots."
Posted on 8/29/19 at 5:44 pm to IHuntdux
1-2 weeks after there was a story on NPR (yea, I know) where an ER Dr from Jennings was talking about how people after the storm looked like runaway slaves, had no shoes, had walked from NO to Jennings in 2 days, etc- just crazy BS. NPR ran with it- no question, because it stoked racial divide.
Then this Doc gets on the air and talks about how there was no medical help for all these poor, mostly black, evacuees. How he was setting up a clinic in BR to help, and listed a way to donate to his clinic.
(This doc- Dr Freeman) lived in BR, but worked in Jennings.
Of course, I heard all this as I was driving to the PMAC to help with all the evacuees. I had called a week earlier, but they said they had lots of volunteers for the first week, would I mind helping the second week. There were tons of volunteer MDs from Louisiana, but also some from Kanas, and Net York.
Always pissed me off that this jackass was either too ignorant to go to the PMAC- where tens if not hundreds of doctors had volunteered their time- or that he was using this awful tragedy to line his own pockets.
Then this Doc gets on the air and talks about how there was no medical help for all these poor, mostly black, evacuees. How he was setting up a clinic in BR to help, and listed a way to donate to his clinic.
(This doc- Dr Freeman) lived in BR, but worked in Jennings.
Of course, I heard all this as I was driving to the PMAC to help with all the evacuees. I had called a week earlier, but they said they had lots of volunteers for the first week, would I mind helping the second week. There were tons of volunteer MDs from Louisiana, but also some from Kanas, and Net York.
Always pissed me off that this jackass was either too ignorant to go to the PMAC- where tens if not hundreds of doctors had volunteered their time- or that he was using this awful tragedy to line his own pockets.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:41 pm to Mr. Hangover
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The craziest part about Katrina, to me, was the fact that ALL of the media attention went to the shithole (9th ward, etc) while the world completely ignored the fact that several communities in lower plaquemines were completely decimated
I mean, I get it and all, but it’s like our own state ignored us. I’d expect it from the national guys, but those people down there for the most part are great, hard working people who all had to completely start their lives over... quite a contrast from the government leaches who got all the media attention
99% of the population dealt with it fine (as best they could), 1% cwas a complete disaster.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:52 pm to IHuntdux
We rode out the storm in Gulfport about 10 miles north of the beachfront, it seemed like the storm lasted forever.
Climbed over a 20 plus foot pile of debris in Gulfport near the RR tracks, once over it it was a clean sweep to the beachfront. Eerily quiet except for helicopters and fire alarms going off. A S&R team from Florida was combing the debris a block from us.
A second story house had been swept away and its top story was resting near the tracks, I looked thru the window and was surprised to see an intact bedroom complete with pictures still on the wall.
Craziest thing was seeing the massive casino barges tossed across Beach Blvd like they were nothing.
I was only 11, remember it like it was yesterday.
Luckily there didnt seem to be a lot of looting or other animal behavior following the storm, just alot of shell shocked neighbors helping neighbors.
Climbed over a 20 plus foot pile of debris in Gulfport near the RR tracks, once over it it was a clean sweep to the beachfront. Eerily quiet except for helicopters and fire alarms going off. A S&R team from Florida was combing the debris a block from us.
A second story house had been swept away and its top story was resting near the tracks, I looked thru the window and was surprised to see an intact bedroom complete with pictures still on the wall.
Craziest thing was seeing the massive casino barges tossed across Beach Blvd like they were nothing.
I was only 11, remember it like it was yesterday.
Luckily there didnt seem to be a lot of looting or other animal behavior following the storm, just alot of shell shocked neighbors helping neighbors.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:52 pm to IHuntdux
On the websites like nola and wwl, they kept showing a horse stranded on the side of the road in standing water at the base of a bridge down towards st bernard.
People kept taking pics of him...beautiful brown chestnut paint type horse, he kept waiting like a good boy for somebody to come load him up
I passed by their maybe day 8 or 9 he was dead and bloated on the concrete in the exact same spot he had been waiting. Kept passing there daily seeing his carcass get destroyed by all kinds of animals. Was really tough to see. The storm flooding a few weeks later washed everything away.
I was identifying/recovering oil/gas storage containers from St Bernard down to point la hache and then murphy oil cleanup and walked up on some wild shite, plenty of coffins and a couple of bodies. Didn't bother me anything like that horse did.
Dust in the wind, Circle of life shite i guess
People kept taking pics of him...beautiful brown chestnut paint type horse, he kept waiting like a good boy for somebody to come load him up
I passed by their maybe day 8 or 9 he was dead and bloated on the concrete in the exact same spot he had been waiting. Kept passing there daily seeing his carcass get destroyed by all kinds of animals. Was really tough to see. The storm flooding a few weeks later washed everything away.
I was identifying/recovering oil/gas storage containers from St Bernard down to point la hache and then murphy oil cleanup and walked up on some wild shite, plenty of coffins and a couple of bodies. Didn't bother me anything like that horse did.
Dust in the wind, Circle of life shite i guess
Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:53 pm to Slagathor
Sunday after Katrina 24 hr? I left Corpus Christi with generators air conditioner and gas to assist 94 year olds in st Charles parish. Police allowed me through check point at Graceland at 300 in morning because I had specific address to go too. Police at des alhamas [ spelling bad] bridge let me through also based on some 15 year old emergency credentials.
setting up a/c was first task. Disarming the 94 year old was next. A 38, 22, 22 rifle were unloaded and put away, His area the West Bank st Charles parish had a Hugh amount of sketchy folks moving in from NO. Most areas had armed neighbor watches.
A good approach,,,,my brothers area 5-6 blocks away set up bbq/hamburger feeding stations for first responders and power line construction crews
Craziest thing....About 5 days later I was hauling refrigerator/freezer waste to an industrial dumpster. The parcel was heavy enough that I got on the top edge of dumpster to pull up container while a person pushed. We finally got it to the top and I went over backwards into th nearly full container of squishy rotting waste.
the ditch water I washed off in was a blessing
setting up a/c was first task. Disarming the 94 year old was next. A 38, 22, 22 rifle were unloaded and put away, His area the West Bank st Charles parish had a Hugh amount of sketchy folks moving in from NO. Most areas had armed neighbor watches.
A good approach,,,,my brothers area 5-6 blocks away set up bbq/hamburger feeding stations for first responders and power line construction crews
Craziest thing....About 5 days later I was hauling refrigerator/freezer waste to an industrial dumpster. The parcel was heavy enough that I got on the top edge of dumpster to pull up container while a person pushed. We finally got it to the top and I went over backwards into th nearly full container of squishy rotting waste.
the ditch water I washed off in was a blessing
Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:53 pm to IHuntdux
DeAd bodies
Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:54 pm to N2cars
Just some of the pictures that came out of Plaquemines Parish still just destroys me.
Nothing left from my childhood, I'm always jealous of the history and amount of things my wife can show my daughter from her family. I pretty much have nothing from my extended family to show her. I'm glad my family moved away before though, we still have our stuff.
I could seriously go for a Tops burger and a milkshake.
Nothing left from my childhood, I'm always jealous of the history and amount of things my wife can show my daughter from her family. I pretty much have nothing from my extended family to show her. I'm glad my family moved away before though, we still have our stuff.
I could seriously go for a Tops burger and a milkshake.
This post was edited on 8/29/19 at 6:55 pm
Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:56 pm to tduecen
Watching CNN at a restaurant and seeing someone using a 2x4 trying to break into a building and then realizing that this was my building we owned and laughing because we had installed riot proof glass on all the doors and windows two years prior. Still sick feeling.
Posted on 8/29/19 at 7:04 pm to N2cars
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99% of the population dealt with it fine
Meh. To each his own I guess
This post was edited on 8/29/19 at 7:05 pm
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