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re: Craziest/Shadiest/Scariest thing you saw in Katrina Aftermath
Posted on 8/31/19 at 2:23 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
Posted on 8/31/19 at 2:23 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
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6) playing for the saints game in tiger stadium. It was awkward and the fans were genuinely hostile towards us. We were volunteering our time and resources as an organization on a Sunday... and no thanks. I recall walking up the bleachers and the fans were incredibly disdainful, it was weird. I don’t remember too much about that game besides it being a very bad experience all around.
Why were saints fans so shitty?
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Posted on 8/31/19 at 3:00 pm to IHuntdux
Guy pulled on a gun on me at the Raceway on Bluebonnet across from Mall of LA because I wouldn’t let him cut in front of me in the line of cars waiting to get gas
Posted on 8/31/19 at 3:18 pm to Rox
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I had a friend who was with the National Guard in the dome. They suffer from extreme PTSD from what they saw there and said I wouldn't believe half of it if they told me.
Worked with a guy with the national guard who was in the dome during that ordeal. He did two tours in Iraq as well. Suffers from PTSD, says the dome was more of a nightmare then both tours in the Middle East.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 3:46 pm to IHuntdux
All the New Orleans people who now think they have a monopoly on natural disaster tragedy stories is a horrible result from Katrina
Posted on 8/31/19 at 3:53 pm to IHuntdux
When I finally got back and started cleaning up my house to rebuild in early October 05. Absolute dead quiet, no lights at night, crossing the 17th St. Canal from Metairie into N.O. was like going back in time, no power other than generator supplied, had to go uptown to find a place to get anything to eat or any supplies.
The smell of decay, the flats from all the building material scattered in the streets as people came back to demo.
The smell of decay, the flats from all the building material scattered in the streets as people came back to demo.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 3:57 pm to wadewilson
I don’t think they’re shitty. Just the collection that ended up in TS, near where we were, were less than cool. I love the Saints and always enjoy the games. That’s why I mentioned it—was a very weird interaction which is why it stood out.
This post was edited on 8/31/19 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 8/31/19 at 4:01 pm to IHuntdux
All the trash housed in the BR Centroplex that ended up staying here.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 4:08 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
I spent 02-04 at LSU and was taken back at not just the lack of support for the saints but tt seemed like people would go out of their way to inform me they don't care for the saints.
Best comparison I can make would be like then big contingency of Lafayette residents that pull for Alabama over LSU for no real reason
Things were different by the end of th 2000s.
Best comparison I can make would be like then big contingency of Lafayette residents that pull for Alabama over LSU for no real reason
Things were different by the end of th 2000s.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 4:19 pm to IHuntdux
Craziest.
Working at the Federal morgue thrown up in Carville after Katrina. Main building was essentially a giant blowup tent as big as a church and there was a huge secured fenced off area with a dozen or more refrigerated truck trailers containing corpses.
The trailers and the whole facility guarded by (I think) Blackwater. The craziness of it all exacerbated by repeated rumors that many of the refrigerated dead had been put down at night by Seal Teams, Marine Recon, Delta, (take your rumor pick) because they were members of mobs who had heavily armed themselves (stores, abandoned police stations, take your pick) and were responsible for early reports of rescue helicopters being fired on by these loosely organized mobs.
Supposedly, according to the rumors, military went in at night and did what was necessary within the first few days to eliminate the problem with well aimed headshots. Thus the security surrounding those refrigerated trailers and the morgue in general.
I don't think those rumors are true, but you're in crazy territory when things like that are being seriously discussed.
I definitely remember the reports of aircraft being fired upon. According to the rumors, those reports went away within a day or two of a Navy LPD, part of an East coast MEU, showing up in the river at New Orleans with a hospital ship. Never made any kind of connections of that sort until talking with some of the Vets working for Blackwater.
Who knows? Katrina. Crazy times.
Working at the Federal morgue thrown up in Carville after Katrina. Main building was essentially a giant blowup tent as big as a church and there was a huge secured fenced off area with a dozen or more refrigerated truck trailers containing corpses.
The trailers and the whole facility guarded by (I think) Blackwater. The craziness of it all exacerbated by repeated rumors that many of the refrigerated dead had been put down at night by Seal Teams, Marine Recon, Delta, (take your rumor pick) because they were members of mobs who had heavily armed themselves (stores, abandoned police stations, take your pick) and were responsible for early reports of rescue helicopters being fired on by these loosely organized mobs.
Supposedly, according to the rumors, military went in at night and did what was necessary within the first few days to eliminate the problem with well aimed headshots. Thus the security surrounding those refrigerated trailers and the morgue in general.
I don't think those rumors are true, but you're in crazy territory when things like that are being seriously discussed.
I definitely remember the reports of aircraft being fired upon. According to the rumors, those reports went away within a day or two of a Navy LPD, part of an East coast MEU, showing up in the river at New Orleans with a hospital ship. Never made any kind of connections of that sort until talking with some of the Vets working for Blackwater.
Who knows? Katrina. Crazy times.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 4:50 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
You're not the first person that I've heard say that about Saints games in Tiger stadium.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 5:48 pm to Mr. Misanthrope
quote:Props for using essentially instead of literally.
Main building was Essentially.....
Posted on 8/31/19 at 5:59 pm to SuperSaint
quote:
I spent 02-04 at LSU and was taken back at not just the lack of support for the saints but tt seemed like people would go out of their way to inform me they don't care for the saints.
Everyone knew Benson was trying to move the team and the whole organization took the heat for it.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 6:12 pm to IHuntdux
I know the national guard and/or other 'military service' that was 'stationed' at msy stole everything that they could possibly get out of the airport. Computers, computer monitors, tvs and dvd players that were in the break rooms.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 6:27 pm to jdd48
quote:This 1 hour podcast on that is one of the eeriest things I have ever listened too. How fast mankind can "devolve". Within days trained doctors were making unimaginable decisions on who lives and who dies...
Four Days in memorial--great book about a terrible event.
Playing God
This post was edited on 8/31/19 at 10:35 pm
Posted on 8/31/19 at 7:06 pm to IHuntdux
Driving down on Tulane Ave months later and seeing the water line on the buildings.
Couldn’t imagine that much water. I was in a truck and had to look up. Not sure how deep in was there. Just mind boggling.
Used to catch the Greyhound Bus when the station was on Tulane.
Couldn’t imagine that much water. I was in a truck and had to look up. Not sure how deep in was there. Just mind boggling.
Used to catch the Greyhound Bus when the station was on Tulane.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 9:42 pm to Mr. Misanthrope
Being a Navy man involved, that shite didn’t happen.
Posted on 9/1/19 at 2:22 am to IHuntdux
Eden Isle
Small sample-
Small sample-
This post was edited on 9/1/19 at 2:25 am
Posted on 9/1/19 at 2:58 am to IHuntdux
quote:Yeah that is something of an imagination that still hasn't left my mind.
Some of the stories from inside that place, that must have absolutely been hell on earth in there [Superdome]
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