re: The 20th anniv of Katrina is a month away. Does it still haunt you or did you make peace?

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After the storm, we were given a blank check to fix all the wrongsList the wrongs and how they'd be fixed.

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I worked in the CBD. Pre-Katrina you had your head on a swivel. I remember going out in December with work buddies. Went to Bourbon, Warehouse District, and Uptown. Was the safest I ever felt.


Left in January and by the time we were ready to move back the city was already fricked again.

Only Katrina could bring the epic "reflection in the mountain lake" effect.....to Lakeview. IYNYK

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$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

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Need to reintroduce Mississippi river to marsh in multiple many places.
Bayou Lafourche improvements and Maurepas improvements help, but still drop in the bucket.

Nola levees themselves, which are sinking, are not going to do the trick.

I visited NO a month and a half ago. Stayed in a house about 5-10minutes(drive) from Superdome) looked up on a map from where all the flooding would have been and it was definitely on that street.. crazy to think about as a visitor

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I think the population went from just over 400k to over 600k which remained and let’s say it was not New Orleans finest that found BR.

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There are zero factual numbers to support this claim.

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Those cities had some bad spots but Katrina made them way worse.

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Highly debatable.

REAL estimates have Baton Rouge gaining around 20k to 30k permanent residents from displaced New Orleans evacuees. This clown a minute ago suggested 200,000, lol.

Baton Rouge was thuggin and lovin it with or without Katrina

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Baton Rouge was thuggin and lovin it with or without Katrina

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So was Houston

And NOLA still gets 20mm visitors a year with brand new hotels, restaurants and hotels

Caesar's and the Four Seasons don’t seem to mind.

I followed what happened from the Pentagon and took part in the Crisis Action Team.

That being said, what I remember today:

Garland Robinette going ballistic on some FEMA guy about ice and water, "Where is it? When are we going to get it?"

Conversations with my uncle who stayed put with his partner on the West Bank by the Nine Mile Point power plant. They had planned years before and had a generator so they always had power and air conditioning.

Two conversations that always made me smile:

About a week after the storm:

"Where you at, uncle"

"Hello Colonel"

"You doing ok?"

"I went out and got our ice, water, and MREs. Half the water is in the refrigerator, the MREs are put aside for the hunters in the family, and the ice and the rest of the water I gave to the vigilantes down the street."

About three weeks after the storm, they were among the last to get power turned back on.

"Where you at, uncle"

"Hello Colonel"

"You finally get power?"

"We got it a couple of hours ago, got the house opened up and all the air conditioning working. Then your Uncle Jimmy went to his smoking room so he could get away from me."

(as I'm almost falling out of my chair for laughing so hard)

"You old married couple..."

Every fricking day