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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 10:35 pm to Purple Spoon
Posted on 7/28/25 at 10:35 pm to Purple Spoon
Spoon..I feel you on that one.
However, the talking and commiserating does help. I’m referring to the shared experience type of talk, not the morbid curiosity talk.
I will say…sometimes I wish there would be a meet up just for people to release some of that Katrina funk energy. Just a place where people are empathetic and just understand how fricked we all were and all are from the whole experience.
However, the talking and commiserating does help. I’m referring to the shared experience type of talk, not the morbid curiosity talk.
I will say…sometimes I wish there would be a meet up just for people to release some of that Katrina funk energy. Just a place where people are empathetic and just understand how fricked we all were and all are from the whole experience.
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Posted on 7/28/25 at 10:51 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
I’m not downgrading the damage that the city and horrible things ppl went through and seen. But just imagine if we would have had the direct hit. I honestly can’t imagine.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:05 pm to lakeviewtiger
I would attend
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:12 pm to real turf fan
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Many died within five years of the storm and they weren't 'that' old.
The consequential damage (mental health, especially with older people) is overlooked a lot after disasters like this. People also forget that the Jefferson Parish idiot President Aaron Broussard had no pump operators at the pumps during Katrina, effectively intentionally flooding the entire parish and destroying many homes and lives.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:20 pm to Purple Spoon
It fricked up me, every friend I have and completely changed my life and I never complained because I had it so much better than most everyone I knew.
I was flying back to the Coast about week or so after Katrina and I was sitting behind a Red Coast disaster worker who was apparently training a new worker and explaining the situation . (Note to all disaster workers never fricking do this is public, never)
Of course, I overheard everything.
In sum l, she said we were fricked. I remember her saying everyone who could would leave, causing a huge drain of money and brain power. The very people the Coast needed to rebuild would be the first to leave. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse would spike, suicides would skyrocket, many people would just give up and die, etc etc etc. The coast would never be the same and take decades to recover. This horror show shite went on for 30 minutes
I was depressed after hearing that shite for days, I almost said something to her but couldn’t decide what to say. Unfortunately, the old bat was right on about 90% of it
I was flying back to the Coast about week or so after Katrina and I was sitting behind a Red Coast disaster worker who was apparently training a new worker and explaining the situation . (Note to all disaster workers never fricking do this is public, never)
Of course, I overheard everything.
In sum l, she said we were fricked. I remember her saying everyone who could would leave, causing a huge drain of money and brain power. The very people the Coast needed to rebuild would be the first to leave. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse would spike, suicides would skyrocket, many people would just give up and die, etc etc etc. The coast would never be the same and take decades to recover. This horror show shite went on for 30 minutes
I was depressed after hearing that shite for days, I almost said something to her but couldn’t decide what to say. Unfortunately, the old bat was right on about 90% of it
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:27 pm to BottomlandBrew
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I made peace that Louisiana will never change. After the storm, we were given a blank check to fix all the wrongs. We had some of the world's brightest minds ... and we still fricked it up. I packed up and left ... I remember why I left.
I only stayed after the storm so my kids could finish up at their chosen high schools. I'm done now...my grown kids and grandchildren live in Fairhope and Baton Rouge. I'm only staying now to finish out a career...I'll leave nola and end up in BR, Baldwin County, AL or my Barndominium in MS...but probably Fairhope.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:39 pm to dat yat
quote:out of the fire pan and into the fire
I'll leave nola and end up in BR,
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:50 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.
Almost everyone in my neighborhood in Buras never came back and upon seeing our homes destroyed everyone hugged and cried with each other knowing this may be the last time we crossed paths again.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:52 pm to bad93ex
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Houston took in a lot as well and it wasn't for the better
Thing is that Houston has 7.1 million people in the metro. It was barely a noticeable effect. I'd bet that per capita Shreveport took on more than Houston as it is closer than Houston to Nola, and they filled up the entire Hirsch Coliseum near the Indy Bowl with 15,000 people I think.
This post was edited on 8/15/25 at 7:02 am
Posted on 7/28/25 at 11:57 pm to cgrand
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I’m now retired, financially stable, happily married and living the good life
I say the same thing about 2020. Everyone says this year sucks. For me, LSU put up the best season in college football history
This post was edited on 8/15/25 at 7:02 am
Posted on 7/29/25 at 12:09 am to profdillweed
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Katrina did good for me too but it was more like 16 months of rebuilding
When you say did good for me, do you mean they more than insured what the actual cost of damage was, and you pocketed some, or they just met the damage costs?
Posted on 7/29/25 at 12:27 am to SuperSaint
I hear you. BR would only be to be by my son and his girl. I lean WAY more to Fairhope (daughter and 3 grands) or my camp in the pineywoods. But NOLA won't be where I retire.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 12:28 am to CenlaLowell
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I lost my house in Buras, Louisiana and it changed me forever.
What do you think of Venture Global's Plaquemines LNG plant? They built a 26 ft high steel wall, and the ACoE built a 10 ft high levee in the parish.
This post was edited on 8/15/25 at 7:01 am
Posted on 7/29/25 at 12:36 am to mikie421
The last thing I'd expect after a hurricane is fires everywhere that is in that immediate post storm video. Were they done by looters or natural? What could cause that? I get nat gas lines may be leaking, but there has to be a spark to ignite.
LSU out of state enrollment was like 20% when I was there just a while ago. It is now something like 40% to 50% which is fantastic for the university as they paid $15k a semester when I was there vs $5k for in state, and that's before TOPS even comes into the equation. Burrow, Jefferson, Chase, Livvy Dunne, Jayden kind of made LSU as the new "hip" Southern university to attend. Louisiana just has to do a better job in providing high paying careers outside Doctors and Lawyers. Having major oil companies in downtown like the 70s and 80s for white collar jobs would do a number for the city.
LSU out of state enrollment was like 20% when I was there just a while ago. It is now something like 40% to 50% which is fantastic for the university as they paid $15k a semester when I was there vs $5k for in state, and that's before TOPS even comes into the equation. Burrow, Jefferson, Chase, Livvy Dunne, Jayden kind of made LSU as the new "hip" Southern university to attend. Louisiana just has to do a better job in providing high paying careers outside Doctors and Lawyers. Having major oil companies in downtown like the 70s and 80s for white collar jobs would do a number for the city.
This post was edited on 8/15/25 at 7:01 am
Posted on 7/29/25 at 12:43 am to Allister Fiend
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When those NO kids showed up in our high school in SETX they started numerous fights. Straight thug behaviors.
I don't typically hear people in Houston call it SETX, so I'm guessing Beaumont?
This post was edited on 8/15/25 at 7:00 am
Posted on 7/29/25 at 12:47 am to Jake88
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What industry would come here, especially after the city was flooded like it was?
Heard LNG plant is doing well
This post was edited on 8/15/25 at 7:00 am
Posted on 7/29/25 at 12:51 am to fallguy_1978
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Hundreds of years ago, a city emerged from a bowl, and it made total sense on that high ground originally. It just should have never been expanded.
it only makes sense in the Quarter and Uptown and against the Levee. The MS River deposits natural sediment to make a levee which is why against the river is always the highest elevation in SELA. Should never have left what is the rich area today. And that's why it is the rich area, because it is least prone to flooding which everyone knew was bound to happen when you put a city in the middle of a 0 ft elevation swamp.
I used to live on Second St.
This post was edited on 8/15/25 at 6:59 am
Posted on 7/29/25 at 1:02 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
20 whole years, wow
I moved away from the Coast about 7 years ago. No more hurricanes for me.
I moved away from the Coast about 7 years ago. No more hurricanes for me.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 1:14 am to SidewalkTiger
I wonder about the coast. Nola got new floodwalls and massive pumping stations. Ostensibly it is protected from another Katrina. But all the rebuilding and new development in coastal Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian? I love those places, but man there is nothing stopping another big storm from coming in and clearing all that out again.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 2:11 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
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I have a cousin that had his house in Pass Christian completely destroyed. He's still jittery
Good grief! Maybe the Muslims taking over wouldn’t be so bad.
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