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re: Katrina Survivors: are you traumatized?
Posted on 1/23/14 at 10:57 am to CarRamrod
Posted on 1/23/14 at 10:57 am to CarRamrod
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hey i have been discussing this topic on this board for a long time. And shortly after the storm there were many selfish NOLAites that thought no one else suffered like they did.
How is that selfish? Most people have great difficulty viewing things through the perspective of another. This is simple human nature.
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Posted on 1/23/14 at 10:58 am to Breesus
I cleaned out a fridge and freezer that had been full of shrimp and meat. Almost puked three times.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 10:59 am to notiger1997
I put the fridge on the curb and cut all of my carpet up the day after. I also pressure washed all of my downstairs floors the next day so I was ahead of the game.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:01 am to LSUTygerFan
I cleaned out houses and cut trees for a living after the storm, so the fridge smell didn't bother me, but I loved seeing people blow chunks when all of the juice got loose. The mold didn't bother me at all either
The mud smell was what I remember most. Just rotten swamp mud errywhere. Flooded houses and dead bodies was another thing, but I can smell the mud to this day. Drove through Laplace after that big flood, and it definitely brought back some memories
The mud smell was what I remember most. Just rotten swamp mud errywhere. Flooded houses and dead bodies was another thing, but I can smell the mud to this day. Drove through Laplace after that big flood, and it definitely brought back some memories
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:03 am to DanTiger
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I put the fridge on the curb and cut all of my carpet up the day after.
couldn't get to my house for a month...that's a long time for a freezer and fridge to be without power.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:05 am to LSUTygerFan
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couldn't get to my house for a month...that's a long time for a freezer and fridge to be without power.
Same. And that was on a boat. Took longer to actually be able to clean it out
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:07 am to Breesus
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Same. And that was on a boat. Took longer to actually be able to clean it out
I was in Metry so I didn't have the amount of water that Lakeview did.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:11 am to DanTiger
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quote:
hey i have been discussing this topic on this board for a long time. And shortly after the storm there were many selfish NOLAites that thought no one else suffered like they did.
How is that selfish? Most people have great difficulty viewing things through the perspective of another. This is simple human nature.
You'll have to excuse CarRamrod. He has an obsession with New Orleans like no other. He only pops out the wood work to smear it whenever the opportunity arises. It's very sad, actually.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:13 am to DanTiger
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I put the fridge on the curb and cut all of my carpet up the day after. I also pressure washed all of my downstairs floors the next day so I was ahead of the game.
You were lucky. We couldn't even get back into St. Bernard until October. By that time everything was fricked.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:15 am to Tigerdew
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You were lucky. We couldn't even get back into St. Bernard until October. By that time everything was fricked.
I know I was. At least you didn't have to live and work in it. I had fun but I know many of my colleagues hated it.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:23 am to DanTiger
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I know I was. At least you didn't have to live and work in it. I had fun but I know many of my colleagues hated it.
Yeah, "at least" I guess.
Btw, my brother is a cop in St. Bernard and he most certainly lived and worked in it. In fact, he had to work THROUGH it. He was one of the guys that volunteered to evacuate the STB prisoners. The state's great plan was to evacuate them to the, get this, BASEMENT of OPP. The pic below was on the interstate by the Super Dome a few days after Katrina. He went through some shite. I talked to him one time about it and he hasn't mentioned anything about it since. He gets all kinds of fricked up every year when they start talking about the Katrina anniversary every August.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:26 am to Tigerdew
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Btw, my brother is a cop in St. Bernard and he most certainly lived and worked in it.
It was exciting to say the least. I enjoyed the good times, missed sleep a great deal, and felt very sorry for the dead.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:40 am to Breesus
Disagree entirely with Breesus. My possessions didn't own me, but I'm sentimental and like my memories and experiences.
Also the OP was asking Katrina survivors, yet most posts are second hand. People who didn't flood but talk as if they did should kill themselves.
Yes to op. I am still pissed about Katrina for what my family and I went through and the residual impacts (relocating, chinese drywall displacement).
Didnt lose everything, but lost a lot. Looters. Demolished house. Moved about ten times in 8 months. Parents moved across lake. I took the whole thing pretty badly.
5th Ward Weebie said it best: frick Katrina!
Also the OP was asking Katrina survivors, yet most posts are second hand. People who didn't flood but talk as if they did should kill themselves.
Yes to op. I am still pissed about Katrina for what my family and I went through and the residual impacts (relocating, chinese drywall displacement).
Didnt lose everything, but lost a lot. Looters. Demolished house. Moved about ten times in 8 months. Parents moved across lake. I took the whole thing pretty badly.
5th Ward Weebie said it best: frick Katrina!
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:41 am to DanTiger
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It was exciting to say the least. I enjoyed the good times, missed sleep a great deal, and felt very sorry for the dead.
I don't think exciting is a word he's ever used to describe his experience.
We didn't even know he was alive until Thursday when he called my cell phone around 6pm from the PMAC. He got picked up by DOC in a boat then dropped off somewhere in Laplace to get on a bus to the PMAC. I went to pick him up and he looked and smelled like shite. First thing he did when he got to my house was eat, then shaved all of the hair off of his body. He said the shower just wasn't doing enough. It's a funny story now because the way it went down was he comes out of my bathroom and asked if it was ok to borrow my razor, he's a big hairy greasy Italian btw. An entire pack of blades later he comes out looking like a baby's arse. I hadn't seen my brother without facial hair in 20 years.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:42 am to LSUNO
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Also the OP was asking Katrina survivors, yet most posts are second hand
Um, what? Anyone that lived in the areas affected by Katrina are Katrina survivors. It's not secluded to the 9th Ward and Da Parish.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:43 am to LSUNO
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People who didn't flood but talk as if they did should kill themselves.
This I agree with
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:43 am to LSUNO
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Also the OP was asking Katrina survivors, yet most posts are second hand. People who didn't flood but talk as if they did should kill themselves.
So losing your childhood home that your mom still lives in and having everyone you know lose ALL their shite AND being there with them every step of the way doesn't count and I should go kill myself?
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:45 am to Tigerdew
Sounds to me like you flooded.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:46 am to LSUNO
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Posted on 1/23/14 at 11:47 am to Tigerdew
I was without power for eight days.
I saw my neighbor's crack when he was chopping branches.
Does that count?
I saw my neighbor's crack when he was chopping branches.
Does that count?
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