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

I was with a team sent to restore hospital infrastructure, we had set up a base at Ochsner's main campus.We were sleeping outside in vans, and SUVs, the smell will stick with me forever. Even though I spent a lot of time outside at night I never heard a single gunshot. When we had to move to a different hospital we traveled in convoy with armed security in the lead vehicle. On the first trip what I saw was hard for my brain to comprehend, there were no other vehicles, no people, no traffic lights working, the areas we went through had minimal wind damage, so the buildings looked somewhat normal, just every living soul was gone. One night in the Ochsner parking lot I walked by a pickup with a tarp across the bed, there were two feet sticking out from the tarp, at first I thought it was a body, but then the feet moved. A guy in scrubs crawled out, it was a doc working at Ochsner, his house was lost to the flood, and he had sent his family to relatives somewhere, like the rest of us he found it more comfortable to sleep outside where there was some air moving. There was one AM radio station on the air that we could pick up, it was just taking endless calls from people wanting to know where to get supplies, other help, that and a Sat phone for work was the only contact with the rest of the world.

Not so, i launched my boat on ten with the Cajun Navy. Rode around westend looking for people to rescue with no success. We crossed the interstate and started helping people move from one side of the tracks to our boats. It was hot as Africa and we had multiple agency idiots with AR's watching over us all the while sweeping everyone with their rifles. After the second or third time i jumped the idiots arse about it and he turned red and moved his gun to an upright position. Loaded up an elderly couple and their two grand kids to haul them out. Through a couple of cold waters to them and the grand parents took the water from those kids until i corrected them. It was a shite show of epic proportions.

I know there was a USAF PJ contingent.

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I know there was a USAF PJ contingent.

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Chris Kyle straight up murdered some civilians from the top of the Superdome.....

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They saw rapes and murder. People defecating right where they stood. "Security" over run and beaten to a pulp. Suicides. Family turning on family over water and then worse. Gangs of young men dragging women into restrooms and other places.

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Lord of the Flies scenario.

Civil Societies take centuries to build. They take about 2 days to break down

I choose to believe rapes did in fact occur in the dome considering the type of people that were residing in the dome. I mean come on, it's not like it's some outlandish thought.

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Checks out.

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but muh fone

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I also know that disaster planning became a significantly higher priority for all cities along the cost after the shite show that was NOLA. If the houston response would have been anywhere near as bad as NOLA’s shame in them for not learning and planning.

Instead though the governing body had plans in place and handled it better

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I think a lot of that had to do with lessons learned from Katrina. If you remember, Ike was a f'ing disaster on 45 until the contraflow lanes opened up.

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because of the zombies or aliens, but because I know the scenes of mass chaos portrayed in those movies so accurately capture what it would be like if shite truly did hit the fan. Whenever I see scenes like that, I get this pitfall feeling in my stomach.

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The movies aren’t close. It would be 20 times worse IRL

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