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re: Did anybody have family in/around NOLA that were clueless about Katrina coming?
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:37 am to sidewalkside
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:37 am to sidewalkside
Nobody I knew, but it’s astonishing how many people don’t really know about current events and general goings on. Even today with constant barrage of unwanted news on social media. Back then when everybody didn’t have an iPhone constantly hitting them with info, it was even worse.
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Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:38 am to sidewalkside
I seem to recall that the track of the storm made a massive shift from the Florida panhandle to right up our asses late Friday night. My family and I packed up and left Saturday afternoon and went to my folks in Baton Rouge. There were only two full days for evacuations before the storm hit.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:39 am to sidewalkside
Clueless? No
Made bad decisions? Yes
I know in my sisters case in Biloxi there was an earlier storm they evacuated for that petered out. That put a lot of people to sleep re Katrina.
Made bad decisions? Yes
I know in my sisters case in Biloxi there was an earlier storm they evacuated for that petered out. That put a lot of people to sleep re Katrina.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:44 am to idlewatcher
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Hope it wasn't that long. NOLA isn't that big.
Per Google, about 1.2 million people evacuated from the greater New Orleans area ahead of the storm.
Evacuation was ordered less than 24 hours before landfall, that's a shite ton of people on I10 at one time.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:45 am to lsu777
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and if not for the levies breaking, they would have been fine, just without power for a couple of days.
We lost power for 12 days in an area that didn’t flood.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:47 am to Lester Earl
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We lost power for 12 days in an area that didn’t flood.
yea thats what I mean. You can handle that.
hell after laura, we were without for 6 weeks..luckily had a whole home.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:47 am to Lester Earl
is that why you never accepted my generous offer of refuge?
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:52 am to sidewalkside
I worked that weekend, Friday night we all thought is was going to hit the big bend of Florida, we didn't learn it was hitting Louisiana until Saturday evening.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:53 am to lsu777
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and if not for the levies breaking, they would have been fine, just without power for a couple of days.
More like 16 days for me... Didn't flood in Metairie,.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:55 am to Artificial Ignorance
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Hard to understand if using hindsight as your starting point. Nola laid backness plus weather channel crying wolf for years plus many without real means to respond anyways and poof
Also shifted west at the last minute. My office didn't even implement its hurricane plan. The first update where we were in the cone was Friday at lunchtime.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:11 pm to Dizz
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you were almost totally relying on local news outlets.
The internet did exist back then, and I'm pretty sure anyone posting on this board (white people with jobs) probably at least had AOL. But you're not going to find what you're not looking for.
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:13 pm to LemmyLives
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The internet did exist back then, and I'm pretty sure anyone posting on this board (white people with jobs) probably at least had AOL. But you're not going to find what you're not looking for.
But in 2005 people only had flip phones and Blackberries......hardly anyone I knew was texting....we only started texting after Katrina
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:15 pm to profdillweed
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.we only started texting after Katrina
I barely texted and then Katrina hit and that was primary way to communicate. I totally forgot about that.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:16 pm to profdillweed
Truth here. Texting became major way of communicating following Katrina. Even in BR, cell phone was splotchy bc so many people and it also had some weather issues and power outages. We evacuated there to family and were without power for a week in what is now Central. Texting worked.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:21 pm to sidewalkside
I called a friend Friday night to ask him if he was ready for Katrina. He had not been paying attention and was unaware. He lived on the Amite, near Port Vincent.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:26 pm to profdillweed
I mentioned PCs (AOL) for a reason, I know a Nextel phone wasn't displaying weather maps. Many, many people had PCs, including old people, as I was often fixing their shite and removing crap like WeatherBug (the irony) from them.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:28 pm to TheFonz
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I seem to recall that the track of the storm made a massive shift from the Florida panhandle to right up our asses late Friday night
Appears there are many people that are forgetting about this key part. I remember getting a call at 2am Sunday morning asking about my plans from my brother. My first response was "that shite isn't going to Alabama still?" Went home and slept for a few hours; grabbed some essentials and a week of clothes then hit the road mid-morning.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:28 pm to Dizz
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barely texted and then Katrina hit and that was primary way to communicate. I totally forgot about that.
Only reliable firm of communication I had was Nextel direct, beep beep stuff. It never went down but couldn't make a phone call
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:32 pm to sidewalkside
The weather channels always exaggerates. Evacuation orders are always given and 90% ignored. Powerful hurricanes occur and are withstood many times over generations. And 99% of New Orleanians did not die. It’s not really not ‘mind blowing’.
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 12:34 pm
Posted on 8/28/25 at 12:39 pm to sidewalkside
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They packed a few days of clothes and then spent 24 hours on the road driving to Houston thinking they'd be back to NOLA after a few days.
This was the vast majority of us. I think I packed two T-shirts, two pairs of shorts, and two pair of underwear. I think we all thought we’d be back in no more than three days. Then, all of a sudden, it was October.
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