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Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:53 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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I remember this well. I had just turned 4, but this is something that just stuck in my mind. Our dog (who showed up at our house during Hurricane Hilda the year before) was the only living thing in our house that actually got any sleep during the ordeal.
I was also 4 years old and can remember this hurricane. I remember my mom packing up things to take to the shelter. We went to a local school for shelter. The wind was blowing open the tall entry doors and the men were trying to hold them closed. The building started flooding and my baby brother was floating in his play pen.
Very intense for a 4 year old!
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:55 pm to arseinclarse
I had relatives in Chalmette who drove Pepperidge Farms delivery trucks. I remember pictures where only the very top of the trucks were visible.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:57 pm to Traveler
I believe Betsy sank a barge in the Mississippi that was loaded with chlorine to add to the damage already done by the storm.
----The city issued gas masks. Betsy video
Betsy did a number on Grand Isle with 160 mph winds
----The city issued gas masks. Betsy video
Betsy did a number on Grand Isle with 160 mph winds
This post was edited on 9/9/19 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:00 pm to cypresstiger
My FIL had to haul his wife and 4 girls into the attic and eventually cut a hole in the roof to get away from the rising water. Luckily they were picked up by someone in a boat and taken to the Kaiser plant.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:02 pm to cypresstiger
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The city issued gas masks
I don't remember the masks, but I do remember my dad having a big concern over it.
Neighbor had one side of a metal car wash wall blown into their back yard. There wasn't a car wash anywhere around where we lived. No idea where it came from.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:11 pm to The Boat
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The original axe in the attic hurricane.
Also the original event where the City of New Orleans bombed the Industrial Canal in the Ninth Ward to flood the Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish to save New Orleans and the French Quarter.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:18 pm to udtiger
Fat fingers hit 5 instead of 6!
This post was edited on 9/9/19 at 2:50 pm
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:24 pm to NorthEndZone
I worked as a volunteer at Broadmoor High School taking care of refugees from Morgan City during Betsy. When the eye passed over we had some problems with people wanting to go home. It was a long night.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:27 pm to NorthEndZone
I was 12 when Betsy hit and it blew off slate shingles off our roof and toppled a couple of the brick chimneys.
I lived on Dauphine St. in the Lower 9th at the time and the water never even flooded the street, but was a few feet deep 3 blocks away on St. Claude Ave.
Puglia's Food Store was on the corner of Caffin and St. Claude and they opened their doors for people to come get anything they wanted in canned goods but no dairy, meat or perishables since it was flooded in their store and no power to keep things cold.
I can still remember the smell in that store as things were rotting and filling the store with that putrid odor.
I lived on Dauphine St. in the Lower 9th at the time and the water never even flooded the street, but was a few feet deep 3 blocks away on St. Claude Ave.
Puglia's Food Store was on the corner of Caffin and St. Claude and they opened their doors for people to come get anything they wanted in canned goods but no dairy, meat or perishables since it was flooded in their store and no power to keep things cold.
I can still remember the smell in that store as things were rotting and filling the store with that putrid odor.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:30 pm to gumbo2176
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Puglia's Food Store was on the corner of Caffin and St. Claude and they opened their doors for people to come get anything they wanted
far cry from the shite show post Katrina
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:33 pm to Bigfishchoupique
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After the storm a lady named Aurelia from the Ninth Ward would come help my Momma. She lived down the the street from Fats Domino. She would bring me his records and cook Banana Fritters for me. I loved Aurelia.
Fats lived on Caffin Avenue and Marais St. right on the corner behind Puglia's Food Store. I lived 4 blocks away on Dauphine St. between Caffin and Flood St.
His house is still there with the big plastic FD in yellow and black near the roofline.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:38 pm to gumbo2176
quote:. I went see it right after they let people back in. I had never been to the Lower Ninth Ward and wanted to go see the barge after Katrina.
His house is still there....
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:45 pm to NorthEndZone
Posted on 9/9/19 at 4:07 pm to TDsngumbo
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Fat fingers hit 5 instead of 6!
too much gumbo
Posted on 9/9/19 at 4:17 pm to udtiger
Yep, was 8 years old. We flooded, but wasn't to bad, about 3' in the house. Once the water started going down, there were guys walking down the street with rifles. Dad asked WTF? They said they were cops and were shooting gators. 
Posted on 9/9/19 at 4:55 pm to NorthEndZone
Wow, lot of four year olds. I was also four, in Metairie, and it tore the roof off the house while we were in it. Had to run next door and we all gathered in the hallway and cowered for the whole night. Roof landed in the backyard and we would find nails for many years in the yard.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 5:02 pm to udtiger
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too much gumbo
NEVER!
Posted on 9/9/19 at 5:13 pm to arseinclarse
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Posted on 9/9/19 at 5:13 pm to NorthEndZone
Grew up in Larose.
Remember it well.
I was 14. I remember our house shaking.
No one in our house slept that night.
One of many.
Remember it well.
I was 14. I remember our house shaking.
No one in our house slept that night.
One of many.
This post was edited on 9/9/19 at 8:49 pm
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