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

Friend of mine (RIP Mike) lived in Gulfport north of the beach. He was in his attic and was able to get out through a window on to the roof. He saw a boat floating by so he got on it and started it to try and rescue people on their roofs. He told me he couldn't turn it and couldn't figure out why until he went far enough north where the water shallowed out. He couldn't turn it because it was still on the trailer. I guess the debris was so thick he didn't see it.

Road it out in Ponchatoula, watch tornadoes snap pine trees off about 8 feet up, oaks just fell over and ripped a hugh hole in the ground. Rolled out on Tuesday (day after) to Florida. Nobody on the road. Ice machine full of still frozen bags of ice on top of I-10 overpass on Kiln exit. Hugh powerlines on the road, rolled over them with a little dread. Loaded up with about 10 5 gallon cans in Niceville Florida and headed back on Friday. Snuck back in, lied my arse off to a state trooper at I-10 near Laplace to get past his roadblock. Metairie was like Apocalypse now with helicopters flying non stop. Walking around strapped every where I went. Blackhawks dropping one huge sandbag at a time in the 17th street canal breach. Chinooks doing 3 at a time....about 10 altogether in a constant orbit over the lake.... The hole just swallowed them up without a burp. C-130's flying rooftop level spraying for mosquitoes so fast you didn't hear them until they got over you, and I mean rooftop level. 120 mph constant on I-10 runs to Baton Rouge to load up on booze cause my buddy had a pass. Another buddy firing off rounds at a guy trying to break into a store, but not any looting to speak of in my area. Basically partied my arse of for 4 weeks paid with my buddies and ate barbecued meat every night that we scavenged out of all the neighbors freezers before it went bad.

I worked for a restaurant in Lafayette that catered food for police in New Orleans. We started delivering food 3 days after the levees broke. It looked like a war zone going in. A lot of cars abandoned along the highway. It was freaky.

There's no telling what kind of crazy shite went down in Katrina's immediate aftermath and beyond, the Vince Marinello saga comes to mind as well as the National Guard having to patrol NOLA for months.

when they finally let people back into Jefferson Parish, i was able to get back to my apartment off of Cleary... riding down Veterans and being the ONLY car on there was weird as frick!! i'll never forget how eery is was, and how completely fricked up the buildings and signage and stuff were....

We drove down from east Tennessee to check on our boat. From Meridian south there wasn't a guard rail that wasn't damaged, nor were there pine trees taller than ten feet tall.

We got to Eden Isles, avoided the dead gator on I-10, our boat was still floating, but out where the end of our dock had been, the upper five feet of some of the other sailboat's masts were just sticking out of the water.

Some salvage folks, with massive cranes and barges were pulling debris up from the west side of the yacht basin. One of them told me the next thing to come up was going to be a roof. He was sort of wrong. It wasn't just the roof, it was the whole house it had been attached to.

I was sleeping on my couch by the lake and water started seeping into my mouth. That shite came out of nowhere and I woke up in a panic.

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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.

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You really should address your PTSD from Katrina.

40 minutes of Hell driving to your Fantasy Football Draft?

Bad traffic on Sundays?

Wow, how do you even function?

Thanks for really contributing your usual effort to this thread.

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