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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 7/29/25 at 2:16 am to cgrand
Posted on 7/29/25 at 2:16 am to cgrand
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Katrina was the best thing that ever happened to me. I was stuck in a rut in a dead end job, broke, and divorced. I was forced to make the changes I never thought I’d be able to do
I’m now retired, financially stable, happily married and living the good life
That’s awesome!
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 3:37 am to Saunson69
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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. We are potentially building an Ammonia Plant near Alliance Refinery and would do the same, 26 ft high steel wall with the levee newly built that is higher. Just want a native's opinion on what they think of that LNG plant and potential for flooding or damage.
Yeah the plant will be saved but the locals will get flooded like rats. The next time will probably be the last time as many have moved out and never came back. When millions of dollars are brought into the parish via taxes there little care for the citizens paying little to no tax.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 5:51 am to MMauler
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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,
I think you missed a few f*cks in that paragraph. Who wrote that Hunter Biden or the writers of The Wolf of Wall Street or Casino?
Posted on 7/29/25 at 6:09 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
We know where a lot of the low income people went mostly to Houston and BR. Where did many of the middle to upper income people move to? Lafayette, Coastal MS & north shore?
Posted on 7/29/25 at 6:16 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
I hate talking about Katrina. I’ve made peace with that time the best I can but it was a brutal miserable horrible time.
My absolute least favorite interaction I have to still deal with on a yearly basis on business trips, etc:
“so where are you from, Breesus”
“New Orleans”
“Born and Raised”
“yep.”
“What was Katrina like? Did your house flood?”
I don’t know why the frick that question always has to be asked. I can always sense it’s coming and it is never any better. I usually respond with “yeah it was a rough time, but when life hands you lemons ahyuck ahyuck or whatever and change the subject.
If they continue to push it, which some people do, I usually just have to take a deep breath and tell them I really don’t want to talk about it and it was the worst period of my life for many reasons.
I suppose I have PTSD because I have no memories pre-Katrina. My entire life was washed away and restarted that year. It’s a weird thing to describe. I don’t own anything pre-Katrina. All my possessions save for a few tshirts are gone. My relationship with my parents has never recovered. I made a myriad of bad decisions the following few years as a young broken hurt and angry lost kid on his own.
I can recite you stories I’ve heard about myself. I can recall pictures I’ve seen. We did manage to throw a photo album in the car when we left.
But as for actual memories pre-2005, they do not exist in my head anymore. I’ve tried to recover them or go through therapy or meditate or whatever but my entire childhood is just gone. When I try and concentrate and remember anything before 2005 all I get is anger and pain and darkness and eventually a physical headache. I’ll have friendly family ask me in general conversation “remember that time…” I usually smile and nod and laugh “yeah that was funny” but the truth is no. I do not remember anything pre-2005.
It’s painful to think about. And that year and the few that followed it are even worse. It’s hard with my kids now. Harder than I expected it to be. They’ll ask me things like “did you do that as a kid too, dad?” “What was … like when you were a kid?” I don’t have an answer for them. And it hurts.
So yea it still haunts me. Yes I hate to talk about it. Plenty of people have worse stories and all things considered physically and materially I’m better off than many so this isn’t a sob story and I know many had it worse than me.
But mentally that storm and that time period broke me. And I’d rather not discuss it anymore. This next month is going to absolutely suck as there will be reminders and bullshite about Katrina everywhere. I’d rather we all just forgot it happened.
My absolute least favorite interaction I have to still deal with on a yearly basis on business trips, etc:
“so where are you from, Breesus”
“New Orleans”
“Born and Raised”
“yep.”
“What was Katrina like? Did your house flood?”
I don’t know why the frick that question always has to be asked. I can always sense it’s coming and it is never any better. I usually respond with “yeah it was a rough time, but when life hands you lemons ahyuck ahyuck or whatever and change the subject.
If they continue to push it, which some people do, I usually just have to take a deep breath and tell them I really don’t want to talk about it and it was the worst period of my life for many reasons.
I suppose I have PTSD because I have no memories pre-Katrina. My entire life was washed away and restarted that year. It’s a weird thing to describe. I don’t own anything pre-Katrina. All my possessions save for a few tshirts are gone. My relationship with my parents has never recovered. I made a myriad of bad decisions the following few years as a young broken hurt and angry lost kid on his own.
I can recite you stories I’ve heard about myself. I can recall pictures I’ve seen. We did manage to throw a photo album in the car when we left.
But as for actual memories pre-2005, they do not exist in my head anymore. I’ve tried to recover them or go through therapy or meditate or whatever but my entire childhood is just gone. When I try and concentrate and remember anything before 2005 all I get is anger and pain and darkness and eventually a physical headache. I’ll have friendly family ask me in general conversation “remember that time…” I usually smile and nod and laugh “yeah that was funny” but the truth is no. I do not remember anything pre-2005.
It’s painful to think about. And that year and the few that followed it are even worse. It’s hard with my kids now. Harder than I expected it to be. They’ll ask me things like “did you do that as a kid too, dad?” “What was … like when you were a kid?” I don’t have an answer for them. And it hurts.
So yea it still haunts me. Yes I hate to talk about it. Plenty of people have worse stories and all things considered physically and materially I’m better off than many so this isn’t a sob story and I know many had it worse than me.
But mentally that storm and that time period broke me. And I’d rather not discuss it anymore. This next month is going to absolutely suck as there will be reminders and bullshite about Katrina everywhere. I’d rather we all just forgot it happened.
This post was edited on 7/29/25 at 6:31 am
Posted on 7/29/25 at 6:17 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Haunt, life changing, MS Gulf Coast.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 6:18 am to Saunson69
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I don't typically hear people in Houston where I live call it SETX, so I'm guessing Beaumont?
They’re mad because vidor hs got a few black kids so their precious children have to mingle with people who look different than them.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 6:20 am to Breesus
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What was Katrina like? Did your house flood
That’s like asking a New Yorker what was 9/11 like.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 6:36 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Rita haunts me still
Posted on 7/29/25 at 6:51 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
The frustrating thing for me is there was a practice “hurricane Pam” a few years before Katrina, and the leaders did nothing.
It’s going to happen again, the country may not be so willing to help again. Especially when The oyster task force kills the single best response we had to help protect New Orleans.
It’s going to happen again, the country may not be so willing to help again. Especially when The oyster task force kills the single best response we had to help protect New Orleans.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 7:03 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
My wife got regrant with our only child when we were refugees in LA, from the MS coast…we stayed in a FEMA camper in our front yard until she came home from the hospital…even then we only had room of our house with carpet and a door.
That son graduated this year from HS and is off to college. Katrina is no more than a collection of memories, lost everything, but I gained much more in the process. He’ll suit up in the LSU vs UF game this year…and seeing my last name on a jersey in Tiger Stadium is going to to be something I couldn’t even have dreamed of before Katrina.
That son graduated this year from HS and is off to college. Katrina is no more than a collection of memories, lost everything, but I gained much more in the process. He’ll suit up in the LSU vs UF game this year…and seeing my last name on a jersey in Tiger Stadium is going to to be something I couldn’t even have dreamed of before Katrina.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 7:04 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Get ready for another one. Price you pay living on the water.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 7:28 am to HoustonTiger6955
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Best story I have was from a friend that was a cop at the time in Houston. He was working the astrodome and had to arrest a teenager for shooting/killing another teenager. My buddy was in shock at how brazen this kid was during the process. The kid said something to the effect of “I’ll only do 6 months. That’s how it works in Louisiana.”
The first people that would need to be arrested in LA to begin fixing it aren’t the ones in the streets, they’re the entrenched corrupt families that run the state.
The state is how it is because that’s the way they want it.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 7:49 am to slidingstop
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no, I'm still pissed about what it did to BR.
Houston agrees.
It's crazy that a few thousand people from one place can frick up other places so badly.
But... look at Minneapolis. So maybe its a pattern.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:04 am to Saunson69
I was sitting in the helipad at Baptist watching that. It weird seeing and smelling so many fires. Reminded me of that scene in the Crow.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:12 am to udtiger
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The migration of NO trash to BR also haunts this area.
Same here. I live in St Charles, but its sad whats happened to Laplace in the last 20 years. Absolutely a result of Katrina migration.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:42 am to Breesus
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And I’d rather not discuss it anymore
Proceeds to discuss it on an open forum.
Look, I know that whole time period was rough. I was there too, but luckily got out ahead of the storm and had a safe place to go in the northern part of the state.
If you lost a loved one, or witnessed death first hand, then I can understand feeling some kind of way about that.
But the way some of yall get on here talking of long lasting trauma over material possessions is wild to me.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:57 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Blackhawk helicopters constantly overhead, constant smell and columns of smoke in the distance, people driving the wrong way down roads to avoid downed sparking power lines, 870 AM telling crazy stories of people getting carjacked, getting in and out of New Orleans via airline highway through multiple national guard and police check points, neighbors pool full of dead animals, no power/water/cell phone service/911 with curfew, and I was lucky enough to not have my house flooded though had multiple close family who were not so lucky, esp in st bernard... It was dystopian.
No I don't think I will forget any of that.
No I don't think I will forget any of that.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 9:00 am to SaturdayTraditions
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But the way some of yall get on here talking of long lasting trauma over material possessions is wild to me.
To me it's not the loss of property, but the deep seated sudden realization and experience of society as you know disappearing and becoming non functional within 3 days. The thin veneer of society is very real and anyone that went through Katrina got a solid dose of that.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 9:10 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Sure it does.
Most olders can tell you exactly where they were when they heard President Kennedy was killed and so it is (for me) about Katrina.
Most olders can tell you exactly where they were when they heard President Kennedy was killed and so it is (for me) about Katrina.
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