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Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:19 am to tgrbaitn08
Can you spell the country so we know we have the right one?
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:22 am to madamsquirrel
I dont know the country, thats why I was asking, dumbass
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:24 am to tgrbaitn08
The one that went right over your head.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:27 am to soccerfüt
Katrina was still a category 1 when it got done making improvements to Jackson, MS.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:28 am to GreenRockTiger
quote:I had 13 family members and 5 dogs move into my 2.5K house in BR (Riverbend) the day of the storm.
REFUGEES
Some stayed for months as they had no where to go. My Mom/Dad, brother & 2 sisters lost everything. My dad was in denial until a helicopter showed our family home under 6 feet of water.
The salvage of their entire life fit in the back of my pickup 2 week later...Took FIVE years for the insurance to pay up. My dad was born on Chartres Street and had to die in rural Tennessee.
Katrina was a shite show of epic and unimaginable consequences.
This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 11:30 am
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:36 am to Crow Pie
My new construction was ready and my builder and multiple family members lived in my house before I ever did while he finished a spec house so they could move there. They showed up at my office with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 11:37 am
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:40 am to Crow Pie
quote:I understand - there were 12 of us in my brother’s one bedroom apartment
had 13 family members and 5 dogs move into my 2.5K house in BR (Riverbend) the day of the storm.
quote:it was
Katrina was a shite show of epic and unimaginable consequences.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:48 am to GreenRockTiger
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it was
I flew with two guys that were deployed to New Orleans after Katrina, flying PJs in helicopters from rooftop to rooftop looking for and evacuating survivors, when they fisrt arrived, to help, they were met with gunfire and immediately left to go to Jackson, MS to have armor plating installed, they evacuated people from rooftops for weeks, they saw many cases of tPOS trying to push people off the roof so that they could get on the helicopter, and several instances where the tPOS got their asses beat and thrown off the roof, when they were finished with the evacs they had to throw their uniforms away, including boots, because the smell of decaying bodies was so permeated in their clothing
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:52 am to Shamoan
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Katrina was still a category 1 when it got done making improvements to Jackson, MS.
Dude I was 15 miles south of Berwick in the middle of the marsh red fishing that Saturday morning when we heard Blanco and Nagin called for a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans on WWL Radio, my wife, 18 month old son and her mother were at my house in New Orleans and had to load up all the shite they could and evacuate by themselves.....I never made it back home to get my shite and/or help them....the next time I saw my house in person was 12 days later after the water went down, we had taken 4' of water that sat there for 10 days.....it was all so surreal, We were just starting our family, we had just bought that house a year before......it needed renovations, and I had enough insurance to gut completely gut, renovate, add on, buy new furniture. Took us 16 months to move back in, then had another baby, lived in the house till 2010, sold it and made a fortune on it, bought the house we're in now and the rest is history.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 11:57 am to notiger1997
Oh, so you don't believe it's possible for someone living along the coast of Louisiana to be bitten by snakes during and following a hurricane like Katrina? Even if they do live in the NOLA area?
I recall reading a really sad story about the plight of a family following Hurricane Audrey (June 25-29 1957). Incidentally, we just celebrated the 66th anniversary of that deadly storm. The father was an oil and gas Production Worker, and the family lived a short distance from the GOM beach and south of White Lake in Vermilion Parish. As Hurricane Audrey approached they listened intently to Hurricane Warning Reports on the radio. As evening approached the father made a decision to wait until morning to evacuate. That decision would cost him dearly.
Ultimately the family faced a desperate battle to survive the raging winds and storm surge. The family first climbed into their attic, then as the house broke up they clung to a section of their house as they were swept along with the raging storm surge ending up in White Lake. They fought to hang onto the floating remnant of their house as the winds raged. But the absolute worst horror? The poisonous snakes kept trying to seek shelter on the floating family. The father did his best to fight off the snakes in the pitch darkness,but ultimately one of his little boys was bitten by a snake.
They were finally rescued the next day - their stricken son rushed to the hospital but too late to save him. How that family survived that ordeal is a miracle.
Now repeat after me. Regardless, of where I live along the coast of Louisiana, including NOLA, during and following severe hurricanes I run the risk of being bitten by poisonous snakes. Poisonous snakes flushed out of their habitat by a storm surge. NOLA is not immune to this terror.
For years and years after Hurricane Audrey, when they said hurricane - I left and left quickly.
Pray for the victims of hurricanes. Have a great day.
I recall reading a really sad story about the plight of a family following Hurricane Audrey (June 25-29 1957). Incidentally, we just celebrated the 66th anniversary of that deadly storm. The father was an oil and gas Production Worker, and the family lived a short distance from the GOM beach and south of White Lake in Vermilion Parish. As Hurricane Audrey approached they listened intently to Hurricane Warning Reports on the radio. As evening approached the father made a decision to wait until morning to evacuate. That decision would cost him dearly.
Ultimately the family faced a desperate battle to survive the raging winds and storm surge. The family first climbed into their attic, then as the house broke up they clung to a section of their house as they were swept along with the raging storm surge ending up in White Lake. They fought to hang onto the floating remnant of their house as the winds raged. But the absolute worst horror? The poisonous snakes kept trying to seek shelter on the floating family. The father did his best to fight off the snakes in the pitch darkness,but ultimately one of his little boys was bitten by a snake.
They were finally rescued the next day - their stricken son rushed to the hospital but too late to save him. How that family survived that ordeal is a miracle.
Now repeat after me. Regardless, of where I live along the coast of Louisiana, including NOLA, during and following severe hurricanes I run the risk of being bitten by poisonous snakes. Poisonous snakes flushed out of their habitat by a storm surge. NOLA is not immune to this terror.
For years and years after Hurricane Audrey, when they said hurricane - I left and left quickly.
Pray for the victims of hurricanes. Have a great day.
This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 12:22 pm
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:19 pm to Zarkinletch416
That's a cool story there, but I heard of no stories of alligators or poisonous snakes in Nola from anyone I know who was there.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:20 pm to notiger1997
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I heard of no stories of alligators or poisonous snakes in Nola from anyone I know who was there.
always wondered what would happen if a storm came through and knocked down that snake farm in LaPlace
This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 12:22 pm
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:22 pm to TDsngumbo
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Ida was stronger than Katrina. Most people don’t realize that.
And took forever to go from Fourchon through the River Parishes. Was a long scary night and heartbreaking to see the damage when daylight came.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:24 pm to soccerfüt
Fun times.
This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:27 pm to notiger1997
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Maybe for winds, but Betsy’s flooding was nothing like Katrina
When Betsy hit in 1965 there was so much undeveloped area where waters could go and cause no damage. The more concrete and asphalt you have (aka "progress") the less area you have to absorb the impacts. I was 5 when Betsy came through St. Charles parish and still remember the sounds and all the damage. Until Ida I had not experienced anything as bad.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:33 pm to notiger1997
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That's a cool story there, but I heard of no stories of alligators or poisonous snakes in Nola from anyone I know who was there
There were gators Nola. I've seen them in Bayou St. John, the 17th Street Canal, and a swimming pool in Lakeview after Katrina.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:35 pm to LA Lightning
Of course there are some around
But, It wasn’t like some scary swamp scene with snakes and gators everywhere during the flooding.
People from out of state I guess have that perception
But, It wasn’t like some scary swamp scene with snakes and gators everywhere during the flooding.
People from out of state I guess have that perception
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:36 pm to LA Lightning
quote:there’s always been alligators in city park
There were gators Nola
Posted on 8/29/23 at 12:39 pm to double d
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When Betsy hit in 1965
my uncle drove a pepperidge farm truck back then and he had a picture where only the very top was visible above water. This was in Chalmette. So, the flooding was pretty bad. my house in chalmette got around 4 ft of water for katrina. nothing like the water in the pic of his truck.
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