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re: The 20th anniv of Katrina is a month away. Does it still haunt you or did you make peace?
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:07 am to Swagga
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:07 am to Swagga
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the smell.
Death. Just an omnipresent smell of death, mixed with decay. I'm still not sure if I just got used to it after 6 months or if it finally just went away.
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Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:09 am to Keith13
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20 years and there are still remnants of blue tarps on houses in NOLA that have never been touched
Low key one of the stranger things to me in the post Katrina world. I have some family that lives on Vincennes Pl near Tulane and still blows my mind how many abandoned houses/lots you still see and used to be in and around that area. I dont know if it haunts them or not but they purposefully left the water line unpainted and still makes me uneasy every time i see it.
This post was edited on 7/28/25 at 11:11 am
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:10 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
The fear for me is that it will inevitably happen again, and that we will not come back this time.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:12 am to TT9
From that to becoming a black Nazi. What a world.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:12 am to TheDeathValley
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The fear for me is that it will inevitably happen again, and that we will not come back this time.
Very likely due to the geography and the incompetent governance of the city.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:12 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Katrina was a PITA and I lost everything in my house. I ended up better off by renovating, selling and buying and selling again. I regret not buying several more properties when they were dirt cheap.
I have either made peace with it or become numb; I now live on the water outside of flood protection.
I have either made peace with it or become numb; I now live on the water outside of flood protection.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:14 am to bad93ex
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Houston took in a lot as well and it wasn't for the better
Heights gentrification really started with Katrina
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:14 am to bad93ex
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Houston took in a lot as well and it wasn't for the better
Changed the cuisine in Houston for the better.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:21 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
quote:time flies
The 20th anniv of Katrina is a month away.
Katrina is the unofficial timeline divide in my life.
I unintentionally say ‘back before the storm’ or ‘after the storm’ when I telling someone a story. I’m sure most of the people I talk to here in CA have zero idea what I mean.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:34 am to double d
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Very likely due to the geography and the incompetent governance of the city.
If the river levee ever fails in the spring, it will make the Katrina flood look like a little puddle.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:40 am to slidingstop
Amen
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:41 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
The sense of surrealness in hearing about flooding in New Orleans the day after Katrina will never leave me.
WWL was broadcasting live; people who were flooding were calling in to ask for help. All the radio guys could do was try to give advice on how to get on the roof...
Another haunt: I hope people will remember forever how well Chris Rose covered the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans for the Picayune newspaper.
There was a thread recently about how his life has spiraled downward after that.
Previous TD thread on Chris Rose's current situation
Even though we are all ultimately the only ones responsible for our own bad/destructive choices, very few people have ever walked in his shoes. Dude not only lived thru watching a major city's population turn into anarchy overnight, he had to capture the brutality, tragedy and cruelty to replay in a daily column as it happened.
Bonus lesson I have taken from that storm: In his book One Dead in Attic, he describes how at one point early on in N.O.'s Katrina aftermath, the Feds, in the form of the helpfully deployed California Highway Patrol, came to his house and seized the only weapons he and his roommates had to defend themselves-- for no reason ever given to them.
The whole reaction by the rest of the country and specifically every branch of government was tangible affirmation that you should position your life so that your family relies on your abilities, not anyone else and especially not the government, however well intended they may claim to be.
So 20 years after, not peace, but definitely strengthened resolve.
WWL was broadcasting live; people who were flooding were calling in to ask for help. All the radio guys could do was try to give advice on how to get on the roof...
Another haunt: I hope people will remember forever how well Chris Rose covered the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans for the Picayune newspaper.
There was a thread recently about how his life has spiraled downward after that.
Previous TD thread on Chris Rose's current situation
Even though we are all ultimately the only ones responsible for our own bad/destructive choices, very few people have ever walked in his shoes. Dude not only lived thru watching a major city's population turn into anarchy overnight, he had to capture the brutality, tragedy and cruelty to replay in a daily column as it happened.
Bonus lesson I have taken from that storm: In his book One Dead in Attic, he describes how at one point early on in N.O.'s Katrina aftermath, the Feds, in the form of the helpfully deployed California Highway Patrol, came to his house and seized the only weapons he and his roommates had to defend themselves-- for no reason ever given to them.
The whole reaction by the rest of the country and specifically every branch of government was tangible affirmation that you should position your life so that your family relies on your abilities, not anyone else and especially not the government, however well intended they may claim to be.
So 20 years after, not peace, but definitely strengthened resolve.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:44 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
The only part that still haunts me is the significant uptick in violent crime that we still face
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:47 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
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Geaux Piggins Geaux
I have a cousin that had his house in Pass Christian completely destroyed. He's still jittery about discussing that whole time period when he had to evacuate and stay in Houston for months. His family was fine, but he thinks his dad wasn't ever the same after that. He said the storm ended his childhood blissfulness too.
For the people here that had to deal with the aftermath, especially if you stayed and survived the storm, what are you feeling as August 29th approaches?
Just curious, how was your cousin then and now?
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:48 am to bad93ex
If a lot of the trash relocated to BR and Houston then I guess Nola did benefit
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:49 am to Keith13
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20 years and there are still remnants of blue tarps on houses in NOLA that have never been touched
Those blue tarps are from Ida....blue tarps dont last 20 years
Ida was 4 years ago to date August 29th
This post was edited on 7/28/25 at 11:51 am
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:58 am to Ace Midnight
You're doing a great job Brownie 
George Bush to the FEMA Director while 20,000 people are stranded at the Dome.
George Bush to the FEMA Director while 20,000 people are stranded at the Dome.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:19 pm to The Torch
I'll never forget the look on the cops faces when the news cameras caught them looting stores.
I left Hammond 2 weeks before Katrina hit to work a turnaround in Washington and we watched every bit of the madness unfold on the news morning noon and night.
Watched them shooting at Redcross helicopters and I knew that shite was much worse than I could imagine.
I left Hammond 2 weeks before Katrina hit to work a turnaround in Washington and we watched every bit of the madness unfold on the news morning noon and night.
Watched them shooting at Redcross helicopters and I knew that shite was much worse than I could imagine.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:21 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Still lots of scars. And La ain’t doing what it should to fortify the coast
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:21 pm to udtiger
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The abject failure to take advantage of the golden opportunity to unfrick New Orleans continues to haunt me (and piss me off).
Wait, you don’t think that Orleans Parish needed to stay a Chocolate City?
Or that the Lowa 9 needed to retain its cultural identity?
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