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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 12:25 pm to profdillweed
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:25 pm to profdillweed
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Ida was 4 years ago to date August 29th
That was my horror storm, I live 20 miles from NOLA and Katrina did nothing in my area. Ida did major damage to my area, I basically had to gut and rebuild my house. Thankfully insurance did good for me but it was a long 9 months of rebuilding.
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Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:29 pm to double d
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That was my horror storm, I live 20 miles from NOLA and Katrina did nothing in my area. Ida did major damage to my area, I basically had to gut and rebuild my house. Thankfully insurance did good for me but it was a long 9 months of rebuilding.
Katrina did good for me too but it was more like 16 months of rebuilding
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:30 pm 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.
When the animals elect a f*cking mayor who’s more concerned with taking first class luxury trips on the taxpayer's dime to every f*cking major and minor city around the f*cking world with her fricking Boy Toy cop, rather than spending money on pumps and infrastructure, you kinda get what you f*cking deserve,
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:32 pm to Hobie101
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And La ain’t doing what it should to fortify the coast
The destruction of Katrina to Nola had nothing do with Louisianas coast
It all to do with the USCOE and the levees
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:36 pm to udtiger
quote:this is my greatest accomplishment in life:
The migration of NO trash to BR also haunts this area.
Ruining Baton Rouge
That was already a fricked hell hole but Baton Rouge people are too stupid to see it - I hate the whining ‘Monterey/Stevendale/Broadmoor was so nice in the 1980s/90s we could play outside and ride our bikes - guess what - it was like that in the city of NOLA, too. Bunch of dumbfricks. Guess what - 3 years ago my kids could play outside in our Baton Rouge neighborhood they can’t now and it’s not because of Katrina people.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:38 pm to DeCat ODahouse
Right after the storm passed through, the narrative that morning was that Nola had dodged a bullet. I remember Brian Williams saying that on NBC, standing in front of a flood gate by the river or something like that.
Little did I know that at the same time floodwalls were breaking all over. From my evacuation spot in Northern Mississippi, I didn't know there was going to be major flooding until the afternoon. I spent the morning assuming I'd be driving home the next day.
Little did I know that at the same time floodwalls were breaking all over. From my evacuation spot in Northern Mississippi, I didn't know there was going to be major flooding until the afternoon. I spent the morning assuming I'd be driving home the next day.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:38 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
I saw a lot of shite in the 60 days after the storm but the only thing that really haunts me is the day after the storm crossing the GNO seeing the destruction from above, the chemical plant on fire, smoke from the fire hanging over the city, barges all over the MS levee. That moment sticks with me.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:43 pm to Hobie101
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And La ain’t doing what it should to fortify the coast
$25 billion in 20 years and another $50 billion in the next 50 years isnt enough for you?
That doesnt even count the BP Oil Spill money
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:44 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
We were blessed in that life didn’t really change and no significant damage. Just hopped over to BR to stay with relatives, enrolled our kids in school and worked bc our employers had offices there. Then returned home a few months later when offices here reopened. I do know folks who lost their homes.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:03 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Only when a hurricane enters the gulf, and I think to myself how I never want to go through that again. Ida was bad enough. Another Katrina and I'm probably moving.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:06 pm to GreenRockTiger
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That was already a fricked hell hole but Baton Rouge people are too stupid to see it - I hate the whining ‘Monterey/Stevendale/Broadmoor was so nice in the 1980s/90s we could play outside and ride our bikes - guess what - it was like that in the city of NOLA, too. Bunch of dumbfricks. Guess what - 3 years ago my kids could play outside in our Baton Rouge neighborhood they can’t now and it’s not because of Katrina people.
Yes, BTR wasn't what it was in the 80s and early 90s (frick you John Parker), but Katrina compressed a 20 year decline to a two-year period.
This post was edited on 7/28/25 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:24 pm to udtiger
We had left a decade earlier but still had lots of friends there. Many ended up at our house up here as their staging area.
Many died within five years of the storm and they weren't 'that' old.
One who rode out the storm in the attic of his uptown Victorian trying to keep his house from being flooded from broken slate shingles....hasn't been the same and is getting worse as is a friend who lost it all when Rita hit and the world sort of ignored her part of the world.
Many died within five years of the storm and they weren't 'that' old.
One who rode out the storm in the attic of his uptown Victorian trying to keep his house from being flooded from broken slate shingles....hasn't been the same and is getting worse as is a friend who lost it all when Rita hit and the world sort of ignored her part of the world.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:58 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
1856
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Averages out to a major hurricane about once every 12 to 15 years plus many other less intense storms that can still cause big problems in localized areas (Juan 1985, Georges 1998, Gustav 2008, and Isaac 2012 for examples) about once every 4 or 5 years.
There will be another serious threat at some point. You can't lose sleep over it, but you have to at least think about it and have a plan for (mainly) 10 weeks between August 1st and October 9th.
1860
1879
1893
1909
1915
1947
1965
1969
1992
2005
2021
Averages out to a major hurricane about once every 12 to 15 years plus many other less intense storms that can still cause big problems in localized areas (Juan 1985, Georges 1998, Gustav 2008, and Isaac 2012 for examples) about once every 4 or 5 years.
There will be another serious threat at some point. You can't lose sleep over it, but you have to at least think about it and have a plan for (mainly) 10 weeks between August 1st and October 9th.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:59 pm to GreenRockTiger
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Guess what - 3 years ago my kids could play outside in our Baton Rouge neighborhood they can’t now and it’s not because of Katrina people.
and would you care to say of WHOM it is because?
Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:59 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
It never did haunt me but for a brief period of time I was somewhat depressed/shock. I was standing in a Walmart buying some clothes (evacuated with 3 changes ) for myself and wife and 16mt old son and I saw a kid in stroller that looked like it had cancer. I told myself that they would trade spots with me in heart beat and time to suck it up.
I will never forget the smell or the colorless quietness of standing in the middle of the hwy and not a sound of even a bird or dog barking. It was like something out of an apocalypse movie.
Losing everything you own and bouncing back has a way of changing you and making you appreciate the things that really matter.
I will never forget the smell or the colorless quietness of standing in the middle of the hwy and not a sound of even a bird or dog barking. It was like something out of an apocalypse movie.
Losing everything you own and bouncing back has a way of changing you and making you appreciate the things that really matter.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:25 pm to LaBR4
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Sadly, this image is the first thing I think of when I hear "Katrina"
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:45 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Katrina rooted me to New Orleans. Being forced to flee, stay with family in another state, then have to work in another state for a time while my wife and kids lived in our NOLA house in a ravaged neighborhood; all created a lot of anxiety and the overwhelming urge to get back to New Orleans as soon as I could. The result was that I quit my job and got a new one specifically so I could return to New Orleans faster. I watched some in my peer group leave the city for good, while others had the means to live in another area for as much as a year before deciding it was ok to return. Intellectually, I understood those decisions; but emotionally I could not leave. 20 years later I am still here and probably even more enmeshed in the city's culture. I doubt I'll ever completely leave, while alive.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 3:11 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
I’ll never forget searching message boards for news of my stepfather who was stranded on a rooftop in Chalmette the last week knew. It took 6 days to find out he was alive.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 3:15 pm to profdillweed
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Those blue tarps are from Ida....blue tarps dont last 20 years
Do they disintegrate or something? I didn’t know they had an expiration date.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 3:18 pm to LaBR4
We ever get a confirmed update on Lootie? I guess he is dead by now?
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