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re: Craziest/Shadiest/Scariest thing you saw in Katrina Aftermath
Posted on 8/29/18 at 2:59 pm to danfraz
Posted on 8/29/18 at 2:59 pm to danfraz
quote:No pictures, but an article on the french quarter couple.
Looked for a link sorry.
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Posted on 8/29/18 at 2:59 pm to Loungefly85
It was mostly the coast guard and their swimmers doing the air rescues.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:00 pm to IHuntdux
Was sent down there to work. Spent time in Laplace, N.O, and St.Bernard parish. While New Orleans made me lose faith in humanity, St.Bernard helped me regain some of it. N.O. was pretty cut throat. Everyone was sketchy, especially NOPD. St.Bernard was depressing but didn't have the "evil" feel N.O. had
Weeks later Id be sent to SW La for Rita. Expecting Katrina like chaos, I was pleasantly surprised.
Weeks later Id be sent to SW La for Rita. Expecting Katrina like chaos, I was pleasantly surprised.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:01 pm to OWLFAN86
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so does better local Govt.
so does half of louisiana showing up to help.
none of it matters except the helping. why even compare the two? seems silly and counter productive.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:01 pm to Rox
Here’s a slightly funny true story.
A very good buddy worked for a janatorial service doing post Katrina cleanup at the convention center. They were cleaning out the catering kitchen when they opened one of the large coolers and found a fully prepared pig for roasting I guess they had never been cooked. It was of course rotten.
Now he had a very large and powerful black gentleman on his crew. This guy was awesome. Muscle when they needed it, busted his arse, and just a really imposing figure. About 6’4” and 325. Big man.
When they pulled that pig out the fridge it disintegrated. Maggots, and the smell was one of the worst things he’d ever experienced.
The big guy turned green, said “oooh daaaamn” and fell to his knees and started puking his guts out. It was one of those moments after days of hard and very often emotional work where everyone just started laughing so hard they were crying.
A very good buddy worked for a janatorial service doing post Katrina cleanup at the convention center. They were cleaning out the catering kitchen when they opened one of the large coolers and found a fully prepared pig for roasting I guess they had never been cooked. It was of course rotten.
Now he had a very large and powerful black gentleman on his crew. This guy was awesome. Muscle when they needed it, busted his arse, and just a really imposing figure. About 6’4” and 325. Big man.
When they pulled that pig out the fridge it disintegrated. Maggots, and the smell was one of the worst things he’d ever experienced.
The big guy turned green, said “oooh daaaamn” and fell to his knees and started puking his guts out. It was one of those moments after days of hard and very often emotional work where everyone just started laughing so hard they were crying.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:01 pm to Ace Midnight
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I can also confirm shite tons of folks being flown in from senior centers, nursing homes, hospitals - a large number of those folks were emergent and I presuppose that at least some of those folks filled out that number of 10 confirmed dead at the dome. The only high profile "death" that I was aware of was the cat that either fell/jumped/was pushed and said, "Look out" before falling to his death from an upper level.
I watched black hawks flying in and out of the track next to the LSU field house from the Superdome. They were damn near on constant rotation.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:02 pm to Ace Midnight
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Widespread murder, rape, pillage? The folks were governing themselves for about 48 hours inside the main building
Widespread is pushing it. If I implied that then I was wrong.
But to these two Aussies in NOLA on vacation...yikes, a murder or a rape or a pillage was more than they bargained for IMO.
I think you and everyone in charge in the dome did the best possible but it was a impossible situation after losing power and the lack of response.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:04 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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Then you probably shouldn't read DoD studies on what the survivors of a catastrophic attack on a large American city will do. You don't want to be near a large American city.
Send the SJWs in to “help”.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:05 pm to danfraz
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but it was a impossible situation after losing power and the lack of response.
It was certainly unprecedented. We had our own share of unforced errors/self-inflicted wounds. Some genius, who shall remain nameless (but his initials are JT) gave the governor and TAG (Landreneau) at the time, cover for the decision that the guard HQ element would ride out the storm at Jackson Barracks (which resulted in MY involuntary riding out the storm at Jackson Barracks).
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
And that was only the beginning.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:09 pm to tgrbaitn08
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It was mostly the coast guard and their swimmers doing the air rescues.
I'm not saying this to take away anything from the Coasties - they probably worked THE hardest at actually saving people than any other organization, but there were so many helicopters flying people in to the dome that if you weren't there, you cannot imagine it.
Helicopters of every size, shape, livery, configuration, organization, etc.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:09 pm to georgia
quote:puuhllease like Texas /Houston didnt help NOLA
so does half of louisiana showing up to help.
of course good people showed up to help, thats what good people to
plenty of those helping were Local and from elsewhere
I was referring to local response,
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:11 pm to danfraz
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He ended up cooking her in a pot and then did a high dive off the Wyndham on canal
Zach and Addie, I think their names were. They lived on Rampart St. she's flash the Natl Guardsmen patrolling to keep them around.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:11 pm to Ryan3232
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:12 pm to Ace Midnight
Some of the stories about insurance companies and the adjusters that represented them were also pretty wild. Saw a guy go full Tony Soprano on one.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:12 pm to Ace Midnight
I’m not saying helicopters weren’t flying people into the dome I’m just saying the Coast Guard were the actual helicopters that were conducting air rescues not ground and building rescues. Those other Helicopers arent equipped to lower a man down to rescue someone from the air
This post was edited on 8/29/18 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:14 pm to Ryan3232
God damn I couldn't even read it, it was so fricked up.
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:14 pm to IHuntdux
Just the amount of destruction. Entire neighborhoods gone. Houses smashed. Stuff just washed away then deposited in random spots. Odd stuff in trees. Stairs to nowhere. Uprooted trees and debris everywhere. Just the sheer volume of destruction.
The constant sound of helicopters flying for those first few days after.
Showing up to work one day about a week after the storm to find a parking lot full of military vehicles. We ended up sharing our offices with men from Ft. Hood, Texas for a couple of months. Our conference room was more or less their command center. The office threw them a bbq before they returned to Texas.
Fight at a gas station.
Sitting at a stop light in Baton Rouge, waiting for it to turn green, and seeing a NYPD police car drive past.
Listening to WWL those first days after. Upset people calling in, hoping someone who is missing is alive somewhere, listening, and hoping they would call.
Mall of Louisiana parking lot chock full of bucket trucks from electrical companies from all over the country. Police from different parts of the country, too.
The constant sound of helicopters flying for those first few days after.
Showing up to work one day about a week after the storm to find a parking lot full of military vehicles. We ended up sharing our offices with men from Ft. Hood, Texas for a couple of months. Our conference room was more or less their command center. The office threw them a bbq before they returned to Texas.
Fight at a gas station.
Sitting at a stop light in Baton Rouge, waiting for it to turn green, and seeing a NYPD police car drive past.
Listening to WWL those first days after. Upset people calling in, hoping someone who is missing is alive somewhere, listening, and hoping they would call.
Mall of Louisiana parking lot chock full of bucket trucks from electrical companies from all over the country. Police from different parts of the country, too.
This post was edited on 8/29/18 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:15 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. They were laughing that with no power to set off the alarms or power the video cameras whoever did it got away clean. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of unmarked random bills while others were stealing TV's and cell phones that wouldn't work with the power off.
Genius
Posted on 8/29/18 at 3:17 pm to al_cajun
There is a 45minute documentary on youtube also. Ima check it out later.
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