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re: National Geographic out with new 5-part doc on Hurricane Katrina
Posted on 8/1/25 at 12:51 pm to SidewalkTiger
Posted on 8/1/25 at 12:51 pm to SidewalkTiger
quote:we had our shite together… I was 19 and lost a lot of my high school memorabilia… had to go live in Metairie for a few years
St Bernard, and Plaquemines that were in very dire straits. They were never much of the "story" though.
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Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:55 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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PBS News Hours is the closest to center of any news program out there.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 4:41 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
The part about the storm and the levees breaking was ok.
Heavy revisionist history after that.
Biggest laugh: The FEMA lady who suggested that the response would have been better if W was in NOLA on Monday. The very same day a major hurricane hit NOLA, she expected the POTUS to be in the city.
Heavy revisionist history after that.
Biggest laugh: The FEMA lady who suggested that the response would have been better if W was in NOLA on Monday. The very same day a major hurricane hit NOLA, she expected the POTUS to be in the city.
This post was edited on 8/6/25 at 5:45 pm
Posted on 8/11/25 at 10:15 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Ok…finished the documentary. Some question, because I don’t know…
1. What was the major long term impact along the MS coast? I have seen some alluding to it, is it towns that were erased forever?
2. The story about the cops killing a guy in Algiers, then stealing the car and burning it. Is that true as reported?
3. They made it seem like the government wanted people to refrain from returning to black neighborhoods, as it was an opportunity to get whites in to gentrify the area. True?
4. What was the reason for there being no immediate airlifts with food and water? Obviously there was a major lack of communication and plan among leaders. At the very least…nobody could coordinate something quickly? Michael Brown is a major reason I’m sure…what about Blanco?
5. The last two episodes make it seem like the blacks were unfairly targeting with the criminal activity. Can it not be true that they were part of the looting, and other blacks were just wanting out and scared and in need of supplies?
6. In your opinion, how much different is the city because of Katrina?
Sorry for the long post, just curious what some people in the know on here have to say.
1. What was the major long term impact along the MS coast? I have seen some alluding to it, is it towns that were erased forever?
2. The story about the cops killing a guy in Algiers, then stealing the car and burning it. Is that true as reported?
3. They made it seem like the government wanted people to refrain from returning to black neighborhoods, as it was an opportunity to get whites in to gentrify the area. True?
4. What was the reason for there being no immediate airlifts with food and water? Obviously there was a major lack of communication and plan among leaders. At the very least…nobody could coordinate something quickly? Michael Brown is a major reason I’m sure…what about Blanco?
5. The last two episodes make it seem like the blacks were unfairly targeting with the criminal activity. Can it not be true that they were part of the looting, and other blacks were just wanting out and scared and in need of supplies?
6. In your opinion, how much different is the city because of Katrina?
Sorry for the long post, just curious what some people in the know on here have to say.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 10:32 pm to TexasTiger08
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2. The story about the cops killing a guy in Algiers, then stealing the car and burning it. Is that true as reported?
Yes that happened
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3. They made it seem like the government wanted people to refrain from returning to black neighborhoods, as it was an opportunity to get whites in to gentrify the area. True?
Most neighborhoods didn’t have a livable house for at least 6 months at the earliest. It was so unknown if and when people were coming back. The city didn’t want to support a neighborhood of 30 houses.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 11:01 pm to TSmith
My thoughts exactly.
Then the last episode they had people bitching about not knowing where they were going, or wanting to stay, or they wanted to go to Houma with family.
Why tf didn’t you go to Houma before? Did you think it worked like a Uber and go where you want?
All they wanted to do was leave, but then when they were being evacuated, they were mad bc they didn’t know where they were going?
And they’re giving whites more
Money fro the road hkme program. Well.. maybe bc their houses were worth more…it’s a
Shame people live
With a victim mentality
Then the last episode they had people bitching about not knowing where they were going, or wanting to stay, or they wanted to go to Houma with family.
Why tf didn’t you go to Houma before? Did you think it worked like a Uber and go where you want?
All they wanted to do was leave, but then when they were being evacuated, they were mad bc they didn’t know where they were going?
And they’re giving whites more
Money fro the road hkme program. Well.. maybe bc their houses were worth more…it’s a
Shame people live
With a victim mentality
Posted on 8/11/25 at 11:02 pm to profdillweed
Yea I don’t get that either.
Posted on 8/11/25 at 11:04 pm to deeprig9
At the super dome. Communicate
With the freaking national guard that was there lol
With the freaking national guard that was there lol
Posted on 8/11/25 at 11:11 pm to xBirdx
They woman they kept interviewing that was dead set on being a victim and cried about the road home money said she was fully insured but took out a second mortgage or something. Then was complaining that she didn’t get any insurance money or money from road home. What was she expecting? Her loan was paid off as I’m sure it was considered a total loss. She was expecting the insurance company to pay off the loan and re build the house?
Posted on 8/11/25 at 11:16 pm to coonass27
She was unbearable
She goes “these 2x4s cost the same, s why the lakeview white people getting more money “(paraphrasing of course”
Well ma’am, probably bc their 4k sq ft house had more 2x4s than your 1200 sq fr house. Pretty simple, and fair to me
She goes “these 2x4s cost the same, s why the lakeview white people getting more money “(paraphrasing of course”
Well ma’am, probably bc their 4k sq ft house had more 2x4s than your 1200 sq fr house. Pretty simple, and fair to me
Posted on 8/12/25 at 12:30 am to sledgehammer
Those school buses that were never used testified to the incompetence of the city government.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 5:51 am to xBirdx
quote:I thought that too. If they did that for every refugee, they’d still be dropping people off today. It’s not realistic lady.
Why tf didn’t you go to Houma before? Did you think it worked like a Uber and go where you want?
What was the primary reason why food and water took so long to get to the Superdome and the Convention Center?
Posted on 8/12/25 at 5:55 am to Auburn1968
Who was going to drive all those school busses?
Posted on 8/12/25 at 7:33 am to profdillweed
I lived through it. Part of the racist/Ray Nagin chocolate city stuff came from the Uptown fool that the Times Picayune interviewed days after the storm. His neighborhood was dry and he commented how great the city was now that all the criminals were gone. He said it was peaceful and quiet and that got blown out proportion as whitey don't want no blacks in the city.
Then this and I heard it often:
Guy says-my cousin once removed knows a contractor hired by FEMA to dump bodies in the Miss River. Military snipers are taking out looters. My cousin said the contractor told him he saw the bodies lined up on barges to be dumped in the river.
No government agency-federal, state, and local was prepared for flooding from the failed Corp of Engineers levee walls 24 hours after Katrina landfall. Show me another mass flooding event like this where the government was prepared. And, yes, there were a lot of impoverished peoples with no means to help themselves. Another issue partially due to governmental and societal ills.
Then this and I heard it often:
Guy says-my cousin once removed knows a contractor hired by FEMA to dump bodies in the Miss River. Military snipers are taking out looters. My cousin said the contractor told him he saw the bodies lined up on barges to be dumped in the river.
No government agency-federal, state, and local was prepared for flooding from the failed Corp of Engineers levee walls 24 hours after Katrina landfall. Show me another mass flooding event like this where the government was prepared. And, yes, there were a lot of impoverished peoples with no means to help themselves. Another issue partially due to governmental and societal ills.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 8:13 am to Auburn1968
Drive to where? Why is it the gov’s job? People were told to leave.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 8:17 am to profdillweed
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Who was going to drive all those school busses?
Yeah this always cracked me up. I’m sure a bunch of $12 an hour city employees were going to leave their families and drive people out of the city. Never mind that there were no places set up at the time to drop people off or no places for the bus drivers to stay.
I do remember one story of a teenager stealing a bus after the flooding started and driving people to Baton Rouge.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 8:39 am to TexasTiger08
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They made it seem like the government wanted people to refrain from returning to black neighborhoods, as it was an opportunity to get whites in to gentrify the area. True?
You mean the projects? Those shitholes needed to be demolished anyway.
They rebuilt some that are nice as hell (from the outside) & you’d never think they were the projects.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 8:47 am to LeGrosChat
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Guy says-my cousin once removed knows a contractor hired by FEMA to dump bodies in the Miss River. Military snipers are taking out looters. My cousin said the contractor told him he saw the bodies lined up on barges to be dumped in the river.
This is what is happening on social media right now. All of these stories are all third hand but of course today's audience takes it as fact. The storm and the aftermath were bad enough without having to make up stories about dead kids in the (non-working) freezers in the super dome and 500 inmates drowning.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 8:50 am to notiger1997
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Yeah this always cracked me up. I’m sure a bunch of $12 an hour city employees were going to leave their families and drive people out of the city. Never mind that there were no places set up at the time to drop people off or no places for the bus drivers to stay. I do remember one story of a teenager stealing a bus after the flooding started and driving people to Baton Rouge.
If I recall the city didn’t own those busses. They were owned by a private company that had a contract with the parishes and didn’t or couldn’t get the correct insurance in place to transport evacuees.
Plus you have to remember, I don’t even think school had started yet when they called for the mandatory evacuation so they definitely weren’t prepared to use those buses being they probably didn’t have any fuel in them, no drivers or insurance.
Posted on 8/12/25 at 9:19 am to WestSideTiger
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Then comes the segment saying people on the roofs were mad because the helicopters were passing them up and heading toward Lakeview (white people). Like they could even know that.
Right. I think in the same episode they have the Coast Guardsman saying they didn’t have to wait for orders, they just immediately went out and started rescuing whoever they saw. She’s in tears talking about all the people they could see in need of help but they just didn’t have time to get to them. And here’s this dude saying the helicopters flew past him to get to Lakeview, gtfo.
This post was edited on 8/12/25 at 9:20 am
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