re: Just in case you didn’t know Hurricane Katrina actually made landfall in Mississippi too

Let me tell you a dirty secret about the COE and the levee. Any contractor that needed money could just call the COE and get paid for dumping dirt on the levee, no one inspected shite. My Monster- N-law become a contractor after my dad died and her idiot partner actually would steal back the dirt loads he dumped for the COE every night and then redeliver them for years there was so little oversight until he got caught.

So he actually just delivered the same loads of dirt over and over again for years.

A shite on New Orleans thread days before the 20th anniversary of Katrina. I’m sure no one saw this coming.

We bought a camp in BSL a couple years after Katrina.

I’ll never forget my old dad standing in the driveway of the one we bought..,.

“Ya know, it’s nice out here- everything is brand new”

Yeah, no shite dad.

Landmass, that’s how unimportant we were, it changed my life forever. It was known as “Rich man or Republican Hurricane” in Mississippi as it wiped out all the nice homes on the beach.

Half of my good friends moved, I scaled back everything. We got plenty of private donations etc. When I went to pay my annual church contribution for the addition they laughed at me and told me some Episcopal Churches in California had donated enough money to pay for everything.

Something that is not officially counted in the deaths in Mississippi is all the people that died because of Katrina not in immediate storm. For example, my friends son died from rabies after got bitten by a bat playing around in debris and was scared to say anything because he was specifically told not to do that, my friends wife was a quad after getting in wreck leaving, and so many elderly that were not sick or ill etc died after the storm from not taking meds, etc etc. Our little church went from a few funerals a year to almost weekly. I think many who lost everything just gave up.

Then there was the “Katrina Craziness”we all dealt with. I was talking with a buddy at a gas station and his phone rang and he said “hold on a sec I need to take this” and I watched him write a phone number with a permanent marker on his car.

One time I was driving into work, and had to pull over as I was balling like a baby. I still don’t know why.

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It technically had 3 landfalls. Caught the mouth of the river, eastern St Bernard, and finally the mouth of the Pearl River.

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It blew thru Miami and the tip of south Florida as a Cat 1 before entering the superheated waters of the Gulf and charging up to a Cat 5.

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I had family in Biloxi, I think they climbed into their attic and punched a hole through the roof to get out. I couldn't imagine.

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My stepfather did the same in St Bernard. Then he sat on the roof of his house for 6 days with all the snakes before giving up and floating/swimming several miles to Chalmette HS rooftop that was on fire. Finally pickup up there by a helicopter.

IDGAF where, exactly, landfall was made.

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A shite on New Orleans thread days before the 20th anniversary of Katrina. I’m sure no one saw this coming.

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Well, it IS a shithole, after all.

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did not fricking hit New Orleans, they got like Cat 3 impact

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that usually what you get when a storm makes landfall as a Cat 3.

I rented a helicopter about 3-4 weeks after the storm and flew over the entire coast video tapping the damage as I suspected there were a lot of tornadoes etc, and that was a fact, you could clearly see the paths when you go above everything. If I can find that I will post it.

Look even James Carville said Mississippi got destroyed by a hurricane disaster, New Orleans was destroyed by an engineering disaster.

Yet in all this shite not one word about the COE incompetence