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re: Hurricane Katrina made landfall 15 years ago today - August 29, 2005
Posted on 8/29/20 at 4:56 pm to Purple Spoon
Posted on 8/29/20 at 4:56 pm to Purple Spoon
quote:
There was an old guy who rode it out close to the lake in Slidell.
He was on Carr Dr... His house wasn't directly on the lake, but during the storm it became directly on the lake. In the video, he watched the houses between the lake and him get destroyed... His stayed up for some reason.
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Posted on 8/29/20 at 5:06 pm to Pisco
frick George Bush
Posted on 8/29/20 at 5:06 pm to Damone
quote:
frick George Bush
For the failures of Clinton, Bush and Reagan when it comes to levee upkeep?
Posted on 8/29/20 at 5:14 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Looking at your gifs i just now realized how far i was from the eye, and i can’t believe how strong the wind was. It blew down so many trees the neighbors had to come with chainsaws to clear the roads. I can’t imagine what it was like closer in.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 5:33 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Appreciate the shoutout and recognition of Mississippi
While I absolutely share in the grief of what happened to New Orleans, I feel like what happened to Mississippi is one of the most ignored catastrophes in US history
While I absolutely share in the grief of what happened to New Orleans, I feel like what happened to Mississippi is one of the most ignored catastrophes in US history
Posted on 8/29/20 at 5:47 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
One of my favorite Katrina photos.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 5:50 pm to OBReb6
quote:
Appreciate the shoutout and recognition of Mississippi
While I absolutely share in the grief of what happened to New Orleans, I feel like what happened to Mississippi is one of the most ignored catastrophes in US history
If the levees hadn't broken, the storm would have been all about Mississippi...I remember driving down Highway 90 a couple of months after Katrina and observed that the damage was worse than Camille!!!!
Posted on 8/29/20 at 5:54 pm to GetCocky11
Hard to believe that sign stayed intact... 
Posted on 8/29/20 at 5:55 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
This post was edited on 9/24/20 at 5:30 pm
Posted on 8/29/20 at 6:04 pm to SidewalkTiger
The Jackson area had 80 mph winds. 155 miles north of Gulfport.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 6:16 pm to dukke v
quote:
This is what I was thinking... the Mississippi coast was just devastated. And just think how worse it would have been had it stayed as a175mph cat 5 at landfall.... I can’t even imagine what the devestation would have been like....
I drove through la, ms, alabama many times in the months following katrina.
I couldn't believe what I was looking at. my first trip north was to tuscaloosa for the lsu game. I drove up at night so didn't see anything. which was odd, because there was nothing- no billboard lights, distant lights, only a few headlights
coming back it was daylight, and seeing whole pine forests lay flat well off the coast was shocking.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 6:25 pm to tide06
quote:
quote:
Note: that photo was likely taken more than two months post Katrina - standing water there still for weeks.
Any idea on why the water stuck around for two weeks?
Ground saturation?
Heavy rain upstream flowing back to the coast?
I’d think storm surge would dissipate more like a normal high tide?
In Plaquemines parish, the water got inside the levees and was hard to pump Out due to so many areas along the levee being eroded/breached. Rita also filled the parish up a few weeks later before they could repair the levees.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 6:27 pm to OBReb6
quote:
While I absolutely share in the grief of what happened to New Orleans, I feel like what happened to Mississippi is one of the most ignored catastrophes in US history
Little plaquemines parish where the storm first made landfall and when it was the strongest got little attention also. New Orleans just had the media due to its situation.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 6:31 pm to PhantomMenace
We had lived in Arabi in St. Bernard for only a year, we left that friday before because we had a 2 year old and one on the way, luckily we did, even though we were in a no flood zone - the house had 12 feet of water in it, the car that had been left next door had slammed into our gutters ... then another 6 feet of water for Rita
we didn't get back to clean it out until November. All the furniture had been pushed by the water to the back door ... it was still wet and muddy and smelled terrible.
It was crazy.
we didn't get back to clean it out until November. All the furniture had been pushed by the water to the back door ... it was still wet and muddy and smelled terrible.
It was crazy.
This post was edited on 8/29/20 at 6:35 pm
Posted on 8/29/20 at 8:49 pm to vl100butch
quote:
If the levees hadn't broken, the storm would have been all about Mississippi.
Probably so from a national perspective but the Florida Parishes took a beating from the wind and flooding.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 9:06 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Amen to those who lost more than me.
I stayed too long for a friend, it took me 4+ hours to get
from Uptown to the west side of the twin spans. Fun
drive.
All in all, the correct decisions were made.
I stayed too long for a friend, it took me 4+ hours to get
from Uptown to the west side of the twin spans. Fun
drive.
All in all, the correct decisions were made.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 9:13 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Storm fricked my plans all up
For years
For years
This post was edited on 8/29/20 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 8/29/20 at 9:27 pm to dukke v
NOLA wouldn't have had much trouble and the MS coast would have gotten more support. That's not a bitter type answer. It is what it is. Mississippi got destroyed and picked itself up. NOLA got flooded and did NOLA things.
My Sister lives in NOLA so this isn't a bitter MS thing.
ETA: MEMA, local authorities, and the MS State legislators did a hell of a job post Katrina getting our coast what it needed.
My Sister lives in NOLA so this isn't a bitter MS thing.
ETA: MEMA, local authorities, and the MS State legislators did a hell of a job post Katrina getting our coast what it needed.
This post was edited on 8/29/20 at 9:32 pm
Posted on 8/29/20 at 9:42 pm to MSUmtowndawg
We woke up Sunday morning and learned she was a CAT 5. Wife packed the SUV in about 20 mins and took our kids (both under 4) to her cousin's up in North La. I stayed.
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